Originally Posted By: grunt
Also Known as: Ad Populum
Description of Appeal to Popularity

The Appeal to Popularity has the following form:

1. Most people approve of X (have favorable emotions towards X).
2. Therefore X is true.


So is it your contrarian contention:

1. Most people approve of X (have favorable emotions towards X).
2. Therefore X is false.

Or do you just trot this stuff out when the approval is not something you share?