The percentage of “progressives” outside of academia who can make it to the second round of a debate without running out of “facts” and having to switch to deflection, ad hominem and straw man arguments is within the statistical margin of error.
The only possible case of this law ever being tested and shown false – the “outside academia” clause is getting softer and softer.
The McFeely/McNeill Corollary to Berg’s Sixteenth Law: Especially in Minnesota.
If there’s a level beyond law, this corollary is it.