"The gist of Dante's claim is that if you cannot cite hard evidence for a claim then you should not make it."

Your claim about my "gist." As well as all that follows demonstrate a profound ignorance about empirical claims, as well as a conflation of the empirical proof with anecdote, inductive reasoning &tc.

When you learn to logic, you might stop sounding like a fool so often. ( Although learning to logic might also change the nature of your views. )

Until then we must assume that the word "empirical" was just something you saw that looked kewl and seemed to shut down a convo so you decided to use it without any comprehension of what you were saying.

Dante