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This is exactly why they stick to vagaries and puffery like a used car salesman. Whenever they argue specifics they look like fools. Safe and effective, powerful protection, surging, overwhelmed, deadly, dangerous, alarming, frightening are all weasel words used to convey meaning with no specificity.

This is exactly why they stick to vagaries and puffery like a used car salesman. Whenever they argue specifics they look like fools. Safe and effective, powerful protection, surging, overwhelmed, deadly, dangerous, alarming, frightening are all weasel words used to convey meaning with no specificity.

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Years ago, a mentor described these statements as "weasel words" and that has stuck with me.