"The famous novelist Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World and other great works of fiction, held that nearsightedness can be corrected by eye exercises. Given the opinion of so eminent a person as Huxley, we may be confident that nearsightedness can indeed be corrected by eye exercises." Identify the fallacy that applies to this example.

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The fallacy present is the fallacy of inappropriate appeal to authority because Aldous Huxley, despite being a famous novelist, is not a recognized authority in ophthalmology or vision science, making the appeal to his opinion on correcting nearsightedness with eye exercises logically inappropriate.

"The Famous Novelist Aldous Huxley, Author of Brave New World