Ad hominem means “attack the person, not the information they provide”.
That is what it _is_.
The problem with ad hominem attacks is that a lot of good information comes from people with sketchy backgrounds.
All information should be evaluated based on its own merits.
I am not defending _her_ at all.
I am stating that _you_ used a logical fallacy.
I don’t think I ‘attacked’ anyone. I just asked the question as to whether this was the same scientology/anti-vaccination person of whom we’ve heard before.
Sometimes, people with actual life experience DO use what you might call ‘logical fallacies’ -
machines may not understand that, but human beings do - and it’s often quite valid.