“By claiming that inflationary cosmology lies outside the scientific method, IS&L are dismissing the research of not only all the authors of this letter but also that of a substantial contingent of the scientific community.”
I’m embarrassed for Guth, et al. that they would even write this. Which sort of rhetorical fallacy is it, “appeal to authority”, or “argument by consensus”? It certainly isn’t a scientific argument.
It is AGW in Astrophysics.