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Lastly, just out of curiosity, in what form do you tend to see the genetic fallacy applied for or against ACC? I'm not sure I've encountered it.

Generally, a saying that because group X funded the study, or that person X that has Y beliefs did the study, that it's automatically invalid (without even trying to actually examine the claims in the paper).

You can see examples of that in this very thread. A variant of adhom, basically.



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