Appeal to ridicule

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What Wikipedia says

Appeal to ridicule (also called appeal to mockery, or the horse laugh) is an informal fallacy which presents an opponent's argument as absurd, ridiculous, or humorous, and therefore not worthy of serious consideration.

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