I and others asked for third-party references to support this claim. @kitefreak did not give any. It is of course on the person making the claim to support it. To avoid annoyance from the departure of good engineering discussion practice and the appearance of self-promotion, and the heightened chance of your posts getting moderated, please be ready to support your claims with relevant evidence when asked.
I’ll move the comment and the rest of the replies here.
I’ll moderate the original topic fairly narrowly to be about practical knowledge about knots.
Comments about this can go to Questions and complaints about moderation + unlisted, mostly unmoderated, free discussion - #241 by Rodread like always.