They were talking about their own problem, but I interrupted them and gave them the Scissor statement.[…]If you just read a Scissor statement off a list, it’s harmless. It just seems like a trivially true or trivially false thing. It doesn’t activate until you start discussing it with somebody. At first you just think they’re an imbecile. Then they call you an imbecile, and you want to defend yourself. Crescit eundo.
2022 May 8, Toby Rogers, Product Punks[2], archived from the original on April 1, 2024:
I knew before I posted it that it's the kind of comment that would get people talking, but I think that's because it's more of a scissor statement than an obvious falsehood.
2023 December 17, normality, Substack[3], archived from the original on 2024-04-10:
Each side latched onto the part of the message that felt most salient to them and couldn’t understand why the other side didn’t see it their way. In this way, the 2017 IOTBW campaign propagated a highly effective scissor statement.
