[doggodaddo78]

Until there's data, there's no evidence the TV remote turns on the TV.

Until there's data, there's no evidence that hot grills burn my hand if I place it on one.

This is the sort of crap that tries to apply the scientific method like a hammer and seeing nothing but nails.

The absence of data for a plausible relationship doesn't make it impossible, it makes it currently unknown either way. This nuance in the explanations of the limits of current knowledge is often lost on black&white thinking, overly-rational individuals who give the impression something is impossible or unlikely because it is currently unknown.

[snovv_crash]

Now seems to be a good point to mention the lack of double-blind testing that has been performed on parachutes.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14684649/

[ourmandave]

The absence of data for a plausible relationship doesn't make it impossible, it makes it currently unknown either way.

But life is so much easier when you don't have to do IS NULL checks.

[doggodaddo78]

I hypothesize that this statement is false (or null). I guess we better use an exact equality operator.