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[–] cron 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No.

Your fallacy would apply to something like

80 percent of Americans believe that ...

But not to

Judges from all over the world came to the conclusion ...

The whole thing this fallacy is trying to explain is that you should ask the experts, not the general population.