# Appeal to Authority Question Pack: Critical Thinking, Comic, Comprehension **Price:** $0.00 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) The ads said nine out of ten doctors recommended Camels. Ernst Wynder's research said smoking caused lung cancer. The white coat won for thirty years. The Appeal to Authority is when someone uses a name or a title instead of giving you actual evidence. The expert's reputation does the work that reasoning should be doing - especially when the expert is talking outside their area, or being paid to say it. You hear it everywhere: "Nine out of ten dentists recommend it." "Studies show..." "My doctor said it's fine." A title can feel like proof. But the title tells you who they are - not whether they're right, or who's paying them. This free expansion pack teaches you to always ask "was the authority actually an expert in this specific thing?" - through a true historical story, real-life examples, and activities that feel nothing like homework. It's the companion to the full Appeal to Authority Activity Pack and a free preview of the upcoming book, 24 Fallacies and the Historical Disasters That Followed. ⭐ Rated 5.0 by people who now win arguments THE STORY INSIDE In the 1950s, cigarettes were everywhere. And so were doctors - in cigarette ads. Tobacco companies had a problem: people were starting to wonder whether smoking was actually good for them. Their solution was to get doctors to say it was fine. Ads ran in newspapers and magazines with lines like "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette" and "9 out of 10 doctors recommend Camels." The message was simple: people who know about health have looked at this, and they're fine with it. At the same time, a researcher named Ernst Wynder was doing the opposite. In 1950, his research was among the first to show directly that smoking causes lung cancer. He was not popular with the tobacco companies for this. Their response was to fund their own studies and use phrases like "not all scientists agree" - not to answer the question, but to keep it murky long enough that people would keep buying cigarettes. The doctors… [truncated] ## Learning Needs growthMindset, personalDevelopment, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/699e1a52-bf52-4bde-be92-b00dcdb281d7 Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au