Yes, but authoritarians are even more blatantly, and literally, all about the appeal to authority fallacy

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"Don't trust the experts" is actually an appeal to authority. People like Donnie and rjk jr., saying trust us, we know better than the so-called experts.

Pro-science people aren't saying we should blindly follow scientists, that's a straw man they set up so they can pretend that the well-researched results of vast experiments and extensive observations are really just a few nerds saying something any resting on the authority of their lab coats.