There are things that have stuck with people from the beginning of the pandemic when we didn’t know much, and science & clinical information on covid was new, but we need to move with the times.
Tag: halo effect
Fraudulent Appeal to Authority. The tactic of citing sources that don’t actually back up a claim.
This ploy utilizes the halo effect, anchoring bias, the mere exposure effect, autopilot thinking, and informational learned helplessness. And it’s fraud.