I’ve noticed this sort of thing with documentaries about the JFK assassination. One documentary will seem to produce very strong and reasonable evidence that Oswald did it, and the next documentary seems to have a similar strength argument that he did not. Sigh. The real world is confusing some times; when smart people are trying to make you more confused then life is hard.
I’ve noticed this sort of thing with documentaries about the JFK assassination. One documentary will seem to produce very strong and reasonable evidence that Oswald did it, and the next documentary seems to have a similar strength argument that he did not. Sigh. The real world is confusing some times.
I used to have a hard time with cases like that. Then I figured out the right mental category to put them in, after the story of Alexander Litvinenko’s poisoning made headlines. I took an outside view: spy poisoned, accuses other spies, and a radioactive leads to someone’s door. Once I realized that there were obviously competent parties fucking with the evidence, I classified it as “spy business” and deemed it unsolvable. Having this mental category has served me well, and it’s fairly obvious that the JFK assassination goes in the same bucket.
I’ve noticed this sort of thing with documentaries about the JFK assassination. One documentary will seem to produce very strong and reasonable evidence that Oswald did it, and the next documentary seems to have a similar strength argument that he did not. Sigh. The real world is confusing some times; when smart people are trying to make you more confused then life is hard.
I used to have a hard time with cases like that. Then I figured out the right mental category to put them in, after the story of Alexander Litvinenko’s poisoning made headlines. I took an outside view: spy poisoned, accuses other spies, and a radioactive leads to someone’s door. Once I realized that there were obviously competent parties fucking with the evidence, I classified it as “spy business” and deemed it unsolvable. Having this mental category has served me well, and it’s fairly obvious that the JFK assassination goes in the same bucket.