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Sounds like survivorship or selection bias to me.

Whats the name for assigning a logical fallacy to a post that starts with “no scientific evidence” and “it feels”?

'Less wrong syndrome'

Hmm, availability heuristic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

Also maybe related, but in the inverse sense, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

A friend in law school once told me that in the US a deathbed confession is treated as an exception to normal heresay rules, because (i guess ) we think someone dying has no reason to live. Meanwhile in some other countries (india?) deathbed statements are considered less reliable, because the person knows they won't have to face any consequences for lying.