"Professor Gene Poole, the distinguished microbiologist, has argued that using animals in medical and scientific experiments is morally wrong. Given Professor Poole's impressive credentials, we should conclude that using animals in medical and scientific experiments is morally wrong." Identify the fallacy that applies to this example.
A) The fallacy of inappropriate appeal to authority
B) The questionable cause fallacy
C) The loaded question fallacy
D) The weak analogy fallacy
E) None of the answers are correct

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The argument commits the fallacy of inappropriate appeal to authority by suggesting that the moral wrongness of using animals in experiments is true simply because an authority figure (Professor Gene Poole) believes it to be so, without presenting substantive evidence or reasoning to support the claim.

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