My expert
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Claim: My expert is smarter or more knowledgeable than you.
Fallacy: Appeal to authority, with display of ignorance. The one claiming such does not know how smart I am nor my knowledge base. Propositional statements stand or fall of the evidence. Usually the scoffer will not hear evidence and/or has already decided the matter such that demands to provide evidence are merely designed to be a time waste as an Alinsky tactic.
"Which particular claim would you like to research. This is not the place for extended collaborative research. ... and yo mama.
