{"id":553,"date":"2017-01-07T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falacias.escepticos.es\/?page_id=553"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:22:59","slug":"falacia-ad-tubium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/falacia-ad-tubium\/","title":{"rendered":"Youtubium fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Not just because a Youtube video tells us something, does that something get closer to being true.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20neng.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-750 size-full\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20neng.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"oculto\" style=\"visibility: hidden; display: none;\">\n<p id=\"p1\">https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20neng.gif<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<button onclick=\"copiarAlPortapapeles('p1')\">Click here to copy the image for your social network<\/button><\/p>\n<p>Source, <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Ciencioides\/photos\/pb.154843871376623.-2207520000.1463150658.\/486430361551304\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ciencioides<\/a>&nbsp;y <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/mitosycreencias\/p\/4043726645\/2015\/05\/16\/falacia-ad-youtubium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scoop.it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who cares about evidence when you can find a particular Youtube video in which someone is claiming right what you want to believe? We all know Youtube is a trustworthy source, and that its reliability range can easily be reckoned by taking a look at the amount of likes it has.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYoutubium fallacy\u201d doesn\u2019t officially exist, but it summarizes perfectly the amount of fallacies someone falls for when they want to present the conspiracy documentaries they have watched on Youtube above any well grounded scientific evidence in a debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The name has been inspired by the website of the biotechnologist JM Mulet. Its first appearance <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">was recorded in this book<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong><br \/>\nNazis have a secret base on the moon; it has been clearly explained by fuzzy -yet irrefutable- images in this Youtube video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To refute it<\/strong><br \/>\nCall the media into question: an internet video from a dodgy source. We need to consider this is actually an argument appealing to voice of authority, in which the usual incarnation of the \u201cwise person\u201d or \u201cthe expert\u201d has been replaced by the internet (the same way they were by tv or books, back in the day) as the repository of truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever the source is not referenced, both definitions and examples have been extracted from a translation of Jaime Wilson jwilson@bytecr.com based on<em> Stephen\u2019s Guide to the Logical Fallacies<\/em>. Copyright 1995-1998 Stephen Downes. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These texts have been modified by Miguel A. Lerma and now by us <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to adapt them -and those taken from Wikipedia- to our format.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not just because a Youtube video tells us something, does that something get closer to being true. https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20neng.gif Click here to copy the image for your social network Source, ciencioides&nbsp;y scoop.it Who cares about evidence when you can find a particular Youtube video in which someone is claiming right what you want to believe? 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