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Originally Posted by troutman
Do you need to be a climate scientist to make the argument that Big Oil has something to lose by carbon emission reductions?
Beyond that, this is a typical ad hominem fallacy. Related to that is the argument from authority.
http://www.skepdic.com/adhominem.html
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This was all worth, just for that link. That guy lectures about ad hominem attacks. Then he turns around and name-drops Charlie Sheen as skeptic of the "official" 9/11 story, and makes a witty allusion to Charlie Sheen's only areas of expertise in the areas of acting and prostitution. That's
not an ad hominem attack though.
Incidentally, great effort was made to comouflage the backgrounds of those 2 key playersfrom that website, instead of just coming out and calling them journalists. Refer to it was an ad hominem attack, if you want, but we can just as easily assert that they're bought by Big Banking as operatives of Big Oil. Is oil a dirty business? You betcha, but none are dirtier than banking.