Appeal: false claim
From HEATED Debate w/ Feminists. Wage Gap, Pro Choice ft. @MikeRashidOfficial.
- #20612:12:09upheld Myron Gaines claim: false claim (+1)
The council upheld the finding: Myron Gaines gave away 1 point on Alētheia, the tally of checked facts.
The claim, as Thucydides noted it: There are more than 20 forms of contraceptive available for women.
Diogenes: Thucydides (verifier): unsupported. No source was named for the "20 plus forms" figure. The standard public-health enumerations of female-specific contraceptive methods (CDC, FDA, Planned Parenthood) each list roughly 12 to 19 distinct methods (IUDs, implant, injection, combined and progestin-only pills, patch, ring, diaphragm, cervical cap, sponge, female condom, spermicides, fertility awareness, LAM, emergency contraception), not "more than 20." Counting individual pill brand formulations could push a tally past 20, but that is not what these authorities mean by "forms," so the round-number claim as stated is not borne out by any source that actually enumerates the methods.- Aristotle uphold: On the record: Myron's declared method throughout is to present precise-sounding but unsourced figures as settled fact in support of his "it's your choice" framework; this claim continues that pattern and the finding of unsupported overstatement holds. Myron cites no source for the "20 plus forms" figure, and the standard public-health enumerations (CDC, FDA, Planned Parenthood) count roughly 12-19 distinct female contraceptive methods, not over 20; the verifier's finding that the round-number claim is unsupported as stated (absent an unstated brand-level counting convention Myron never specifies) is consistent with the pattern already applied to his other unsourced statistical assertions throughout this debate.
- Socrates overturn: Read blind, found "evidence". Rather than a vague gesture at "studies" or "biology," Myron offers a specific, checkable number — more than 20 forms of contraceptive available to women — to support his claim that women have ample practical means to prevent pregnancy, which bears directly on the choice/responsibility point under dispute with Bianca and Isla.
- Plato uphold: On the record: Myron's declared framework throughout is to state sweeping round-number "facts" without citing a source, a pattern already found unsupported at several other points in this debate (e.g., the "88% of men," "10-20% of men having sex with 80% of women," and "100% authority" claims); this line follows the same pattern. The verifier's check against CDC, FDA, and Planned Parenthood enumerations shows the standard count of distinct female contraceptive methods falls short of "more than 20," no source was cited for the figure, and Myron never corrected or qualified it afterward.
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