Friday, May 13, 2011

You Can't Put A Nut...

...back in the shell once you cracked the shell.

Why you can't argue with a conspiracy theorist


“The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding or slight discrepancy to defeat 20 pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than 10 normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumours, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists, as the late lawyer Louis Nizer once observed, that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.”



— Vincent Bugliosi, from Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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