In a 2006 TV Interview, the Actor Tom Cruise Criticized

Multiple Choice

In a 2006 TV interview, the actor Tom Cruise criticized psychiatrists, a position consistent with Scientology, for using harmful techniques such as shock therapy. Cruise maintained that he understood the problems with psychiatry because he had studied its history. Cruise concluded that the interviewer did not understand the dangers of psychiatry because the interviewer had not studied the history. Which kind of evidence was Cruise providing?

A) An anecdote about himself
B) A statement of authority made by himself
C) A commonsense belief that he held
D) Scientific evidence that he cited