xkcd #3210: Eliminating the Impossible
Title text:
'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3210/
Thanks! I had assumed it was all fantastic fictional fluff. Really interesting to learn there's a grain of truth behind it
Very tiny grain - I feel like Doyle was a bit of a dreamer who was easily misled by confident adults and even children