Bad Appeals to Authority

One of the concepts that interested me was bad appeals to authority. According to Epstein, bad appeals to authority is when people accepts a claim from someone who doesn't know the subject really well  or wants to mislead people in to believing something. One of the most common things I hear that people say is the world is going to end in 2012. People that often say this are not scientist or experts in the world ending. Probably these people watch videos on YouTube or read articles not made by experts. This gets very annoying especially when my cousin starts talking about it. He's not an expert and he often watches videos on YouTube made by  random people. Just because a lot of people believe the world is going to end in 2012 doesn't mean they are right. Luckily I am not one of those people. This is one of the many examples of bad appeals to authority.