I've never heard of the skunk on a flagpole example (does the smell drop off according to the inverse square law), but surely this can be refuted by pointing ou

I've never heard of the skunk on a flagpole example (does the smell drop off according to the inverse square law), but surely this can be refuted by pointing out that the other examples are expressions of energy transmitted from a point source and the smell is directionally emitted from the skunks butt.