Veriphonification

Perhaps I shouldn’t admit this publicly, but I like One Direction’s hit, “What Makes You Beautiful”. It’s catchy and has a positive lay. It also has a niggling logical fallacy:

Here’s how this argument plays out:

Appeal to authority? Check. Argumentum ad populum? Check (“everyone else in the room can see it”).

I also like Dr. K’s neologism, veriphonification.