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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
Lack of basic research in books is so frustrating.
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The number of books even in later 20th C where if someone gets cold and wet they automatically get a cold. Jane Austen wasn't a reference work writer.
Or a blow on the head or punch knocks someone unconscious without other medical issues.
No-one ever seems to try stripping the insulation with scissors on a cut telephone wire and twisting the ends together. The polarity doesn't matter.
Calling an electric shock an electrocution (potential injury vs death).
Instant knock-out drugs or darts don't exist (or police wouldn't use real bullets). At least one novel I read had an author's note at the end that the instant knockout dart was fantasy, but he left it in because it was fun That's sort of reasonable.