In reply to <a href="https://macdailynews.com/2020/04/23/bill-gates-getting-a-covid-19-vaccine-by-2h21-would-be-history-making-achievement/#comment-2190806">smayer97</a>.
I don’t think you know what “ad hominem” means. I rejected your argument because it is a bad argument, not because you are a bad person (which you aren’t, as far as I know). My only “attack” was on the notion that experience in a subject can make an expert’s opinion less authoritative. One assumes that somebody who passed the specialist boards in pulmonology is familiar with the relevant literature on the respiratory diseases that he treats. I am certainly not a doctor, but I can figure out what the majority of doctors are saying about something. That is very different from cherry-picking sources that support a pre-existing point of view.
