Appeal: appeal to authority
From HEATED Debate w/ Feminists. Wage Gap, Pro Choice ft. @MikeRashidOfficial.
- #19991:27:20upheld Myron Gaines psogos: appeal to authority (+1)
The council upheld the call: Myron Gaines gave away 1 point.
“It's it's biologically proven, like, women are more attracted to a man that's preselected and has multiple women.”
Diogenes: "Biologically proven", together with the "10 to 20% of men... 80% of the girls" statistic, is offered as settled science with no source anyone could check, in place of evidence for a disputed claim.- Aristotle uphold: On the record: Myron's declared and consistently held method throughout is to dress disputed generalizations about women as "fact-based" or "studies show" rather than opinion, invoking unnamed science/authority instead of citing anything checkable (as already seen at 32:29, 51:48, 55:36); this line continues that pattern rather than departing from it. "It's biologically proven" is asserted flatly, with no named study or source anywhere in the surrounding minutes, to settle a disputed empirical claim about female attraction — precisely the appeal-to-authority pattern this judge has already found and upheld elsewhere in this debate (e.g., 51:48). The verifier confirms no checkable source exists in context.
- Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "appeal to authority". Myron asserts "it's biologically proven" that women prefer preselected men, but names no study, researcher, or specific finding — a bare gesture at "biology" or "science" to settle the point, the same move already made at 32:29 and 51:48 ("there are studies") and never cashed out with a citation anywhere in the debate.
- Plato uphold: On the record: Myron's declared framework since early in the debate is that he speaks in "facts" and cites unnamed studies/biology to back sweeping claims about women; this line is a straightforward continuation of that recurring pattern, not a departure from it. The quote is confirmed verbatim, and "biologically proven" together with an unsourced "10 to 20%... 80%" statistic invokes the unnamed authority of "biology"/"studies" for a contested claim, with nothing checkable offered — a recognizable appeal to authority, consistent with the same pattern already upheld earlier in this debate (32:29, 35:17, 51:48).
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