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

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Cruise is making a statement of authority based on his own study of psychiatry, as a representative of the beliefs and teachings of Scientology. He is not providing scientific evidence or an anecdote about himself, although he may be expressing a commonsense belief.

In a 2006 TV Interview, the Actor Tom Cruise Criticized