Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.Ann Landers did an informal survey on sex. Many people responded, some of them favorably, but a lot unfavorably. In a follow-up column, she wrote, "Comments by Erica Jong, Andrew Greeley, Helen Gurley Brown, Gay Talese, and Gloria Steinem showed insight and understanding. A few so-called sex experts who called the survey 'dangerous' demonstrated incredible ignorance and missed the point completely."
What will be an ideal response?
Ad hominem, personal attack. But this looks more than anything like a simple case of saying, "Anybody who disagrees with me is wrong and an ignoramus."
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