Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24.130.28.230-20150721180826/@comment-4091815-20160202015944

Yes it can because it was stated twice, definitively by a character that is trusted on the topic. It was also stated definitively in two different episodes. This is canon. You are treating this like the flashbacks in Visionary when we had two unreliable narrators telling a story. In that instance we had to rely on what was shown and not was being said because the narrators were self-serving in their telling.

In this instance we are being spoon-fed information from a mostly reliable narrator who has no reason to deceive us. He is an authority. That combined with the fact that it was stated so decisively and by two different writers means the information is correct.