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>Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 23:19:37 -0400
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>From: Ian Goddard <Ian@goddard.net>
>Subject: Re: Waco FLIR Update
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>
>At 04:16 PM 05/23/2000 -0700, Joe Dees wrote:
>
>>Just as I said - whoever's opinions the test results cut against will
>>denounce them as either incompetent or dishonest or both.
>
>
> IAN: Well, if the situation was reversed and the debris
> had been placed on "white hot" ground, obscuring almost
> all reflections, and the gunshots were placed over "black
> cold" ground, emphasizing them, it would be a legitimate
> grievance that there should not be different backgrounds.
> Making one phenomena invisible and another exceptionally
> visible is exactly contrary to examining their similarity.
> Nobody should be asked to accept that Waco FLIR flashes
> are not gunshots based on a videotape of gunshots placed
> up against a bright background, obscuring them to nothing.
>
Your modus is a familiar one for most conspiracy theorists. On the rare occasions when they might be right, they say, "I tolja so", and on the frequent occasions when they are proven wrong, they say "I'm REALLY right; it's just further evidence of a conspiracy that the evidence THEY show says I'm wrong." In other words, if X, I'm right, and if not-X, I'm right, also. Such a mindset perpetuates itself regardless of the merits of its case.
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