anecdotal evidence
 

I always enjoy how anecdotal evidence can be used to "prove" anything. Here's a story reported today by Ohio.com. I invented the headline to make the point...

OBESITY SAVES LIVES

"A Chilean trapeze artist who plummeted to the ground while performing without a net was saved when he landed on an obese spectator, reports The Week."
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Do you have some anecdotal evidence that offers spurious "proof" of something?

fast food chain blamed for world war 3

the CIA obvioulsy misunderstood the order "take out chienese"

[for the slow witted="buy chienese fastfood"]

LOL.....the trapeze story was funny as hell