Anecdotal Evidence

Empirical evidence that somebody just doesn't want to look at.

Manray: "Is your name Patrick Star?"
Patrick: "Yes"
Manray: "...and is this your ID?"
Patrick: "Yes"
Manray: "Good, because I found this ID in this wallet, so if that's the case, this must be your wallet!"
Patrick: "But that's anecdotal evidence!"

by Some guy who's smarter than Va January 21, 2024

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Evidence

F*cking bad opinion or fact

That Evidence killed my mother f*cker.

by Get the motherfucker September 23, 2020

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evide

the verb form of "evidence"

Jury: Criminal, I declare giving me the evidence! (Judge: Yeah, evide him!)

by DMD77 November 30, 2019

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Evident, eviDent, evidenT

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decision-based evidence making

An alternative to evidence-based decision making, "decision-based evidence making" is the practice of collecting evidence to support a pre-existing decision, rather than using evidence in any way to inform the decision itself.

This technique typically involves cherry-picking sources or relying on bad or unreliable authorities to justify or legitimise (after the fact) a questionable decision which has already been made.

Dr. Daniel Jernigan resigned from CDC in 2025, telling reporters that Robert F Kennedy Jr seems to be "going from evidence-based decision making to decision-based evidence making" as the Centres for Disease Control began citing debunked studies to support a dodgy claim that vaccines cause autism.

by bitchuck November 20, 2025

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