Genetic Fallacy
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Judging a claim by its origin rather than its merits.
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"That policy idea was first floated by a discredited regime — reject it." Ideas outrun their birthplaces.
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Near-miss: origin legitimately bears on testimony and on claims you can't independently check. Where the claim stands on public evidence, its parentage is trivia.
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