Distilled down, classic search is many results; gpt is one result.
He said that oil is renewable because the platonic plates make oil and not some million old waiting based chemical process.
When people ignore everything and also ignore logic (why do oil wells disappear after getting the oil out) it really doesn't matter were they read it
Not sure why I wrote platonic
It's actively adversarial.
Granted, most people tend to use some combination of both logic and heuristics in practice to determine their own understanding of the truth, perceived reputation being a fairly common one.
Mostly in the same sense as arguments from induction are "illogical". Appeal to authority is essentially an inductive argument, and those are just as logical. Of course, they deal in probabilities rather than certainty, unlike deduction, but that doesn't make them illogical.