On: Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread

[samatman]

Credentialism is rejecting a sound argument or explanation because the author is perceived to lack credentials.

What you're doing here is the opposite.

[senthil_rajasek → samatman]

I was right.

You seem confused.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/credentialism

"belief in or reliance on academic or other formal qualifications as the best measure of a person's intelligence or ability to do a particular job."

[samatman → senthil_rajasek]

It's also accepting a weak argument because of the credentials of the author. I thought that was trivially understood, but I guess not.

Which is also not what you're doing; your case appears to be that credentials are a reason to reject a sound explanation or argument, which is absurd.

[senthil_rajasek → samatman]

Now you are bringing in your own narrative to a dictionary definition. My case is that the parent comment seems to put credentials before a valid argument, which is what I am against. Credentials are not a proxy for a sound argument.

[samatman → senthil_rajasek]

Dictionaries aren't weapons.

[senthil_rajasek → samatman]

Dictionaries are references to look up words before opening mouths.