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been looking at some covid related stuff and have been a usual seeing people saying that the cdc is unreliable and so without giving anything to support it, wondering what fallacy this commits?

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No fallacy. Just an unsupported opinion.

Agreeing with Prof M's unsupported opinion. This could also be the result of a cognitive bias (confirmation bias), where the people who dismiss the CDC as 'unreliable' are doing so because it says things that clash with their strongly-held beliefs.

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