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No, the equivalent to your example would be "97% of climate scientists believe that climate exists"

It's also not an appeal to authority fallacy to say that the only people who bothered to check something have a certain opinion.

How do you know what's in the box? Well I looked in it and you still haven't.

> 97% of climate scientists believe that climate exists

Perhaps you meant “climate change”?

No. I'm specifically saying that "numerologists believe in numerology" is equivalent to "climate scientists believe climate exists"

I think there’s a fair number of numerologists who believe that numerology doesn’t work.