"The Flat Earth Society says that the earth is a flat circle, with the North Pole at the center and giant mountains of ice around the circumference to keep boats and planes from going off the edge. So, I guess the earth is flat after all." This statement illustrates the fallacy of inappropriate appeal to authority. Identify the most relevant reason for the fallacy.

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The statement is an example of the fallacy of inappropriate appeal to authority because the Flat Earth Society is not a credible or expert source on the shape of the Earth, and their claim conflicts with the overwhelming consensus of scientific evidence and expert opinion that the Earth is an oblate spheroid.

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