A better question would’ve been if she even reads the reports on the trials and experiments that other people have done on the medication. Most consumers just look at the pharmaceutical corporate propaganda brochures but not the actual testing reports, so the street preacher would’ve probably still received the answer of “no” that he wanted from the woman, but he wouldn’t have used the fallacy that proof has to be first hand and can’t be second or third hand. It’s ok to use other people’s proofs as long as you take the time to comprehend and verify them. Mathematicians do it all the time.

From the “left can’t meme” files is the meme of pro-vaxx research being done in a lab by white coats while anti-vaxx research is done on a phone by a mom on the toilet. The meme rings false because most pro-vaxxers, as in people who took the vaxx themselves or who had their kids take it, did not do any lab work to make their decision, and the anti-vaxx mom on the toilet could’ve been using her phone to access reports of lab work that showed the vaxx was unsafe, ineffective, and not worth the risks.