Joey_P
March 20, 2022, 4:23pm
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naita:
Are you presenting “something you just saw on the Science Channel yesterday” as an interesting tidbit? Are you open to being challenged on your memory of the “something”? Then you don’t need a more solid cite.
Are you presenting it as fact in a discussion and other people are challenging whether you remember correctly? Then you might need to look for a cite or concede the argument for the present.
It was very much presented as “I don’t need a cite because I have a perfect memory of a 20+ year old news story”. Which, again, even if his memory is perfect, is little more than an anecdote without a cite (and even with a cite, it’s very possible the news story was flawed).
Really, a rather important piece of information for those who carry them.
Self-defense sprays don’t work! Because only the police (in the USA) are allowed to have the good stuff. ‘The good stuff’ is subsequently classified as a weapon. And if you were to carry that with you, you’d probably get in more trouble than the criminal you sprayed it with.
Some guy back, on local TV where I live [Detroit, MI] let a woman spray him with her OTC self-defense spray. It only made him sneeze and cough a lit…
Here was his response to being asked for a cite:
Okay, then I will go back in time, record the news episode on my smartphone, and bring it back here. Would that satisfy you
I remember exactly what happened on TV then, and I am relating exactly