He's also highly credible, and that's important for the success of a Straw Man Fallacy, because the straw-man involves tricking your audience.
A portfolio agreement should be highly credible, given that it is grounded in domestic commitments, binding in and enforceable by law previously made by the very governments signing on to the international agreement.
The fact is that the ECB is highly credible: most observers, me included, are quite sure that it is totally allergic to inflation and relatively indifferent to the collapse of the real economy.
We knew tobacco was a major cause of chronic disease and formed a local coalition that included the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and American Lung Association, highly credible organizations whose boards included influential doctors and donors.
What we find in our data, compiled from only highly credible sources (FBI, DOJ, CDC, etc)., is that violence is directly and strongly correlated with socio-economic data on education, health, poverty, inequality, basic services, labor participation and social capital.
Whether one believes or doubts that the Hills were kidnapped by aliens, what stands out about them is that they were highly credible, reliable people.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology said it has talked to several "highly credible" witnesses of the thylacine and has found animal faeces that could belong to the beast.
"I have to believe that the results are highly credible," he said.
This was tested for the first time in The Netherlands, and the results reported in this issue showed that the method produced highly credible data (Janssen et al).
The analysis revealed that the data are highly credible with a mean Q-value of 36 (Additional file 1: Figure S1).
