This could be just as easily directed to the articles author.

Actually, it is, for a statistically significant number of anecdotes.

Best comment response ever. It is sad this will languish here rather than be etched into a stele.

Let's say, counterexamples are not unbiased samples.

Mostly true but the singular of data (pl) is anecdote - considered as a discrete experience.

It is `Empirical`