03-11-2009, 08:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-11-2009, 09:24 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
I agree with Jack that his [Tom's] basic scientific principals were sound. Could they produce a false positive? Yes!. Did they a few times? Likely! Did they all the time? I think not! Only a few of his conclusions differ some from what most of the rest of us have concluded, through other means. He did not use those other means, for the most part, and did not read all we have read. He worked naively [in the best sense of the word] with the pictures without, at first, knowing the scenario we have come to know and [generally] agree upon. My interaction with TW is not in the book. I imagine much of his other work is not, as well. I know other episodes not covered, as well. I can speak for myself in saying that many puzzling questions he asked me and demanded I ask Tosh to answer are now, after reading the book, more understandable - though no less forgivable (for his never revealing the reasons behind them, nor the photo enhancements he 'did for me' - which I only got long after his death). Charles is right to worry - the opposition will try to make a laughingstock out of his work - and it will be somewhat easy to laypersons, due to the complexity of the methodology. We must put our shoulders to the wheel and get his methodology validated and some of the work repeated, using it - expanding it to other photos, as well. This will NOT be an easy thing to do. But, it is doable! In the meantime, we will all come 'down' with different 'takes' on the likely veracity of his work, generally. I (and Jack) find much merit in his work. The work that shows the 3D hole in JFKs head is (pardon the phrase!) - mind blowing!!!!! [and I think correct]. There are many things I know about Tom not mentioned in the book. It is only a primer on his work. Now, to the real task at hand!....
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass