12-01-2009, 04:41 PM
Certain scientists, educators, and skeptics -- self-annointed and otherwise -- continue to wield Occam's Razor to slash at the truth that is conspiracy in the JFK assassination.
While the truth is impervious to all attempts to disfigure it, its lifelines to those most in need of its redemptive qualities far too often are cut by these charlatans who, knowingly or not, do the killers' business.
The principle known either as Occam's Razor or lex parsimoniae (the law of parsimony) states that "the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory."
Stated another way, "plurality should not be posited without necessity."
The caveat most often raised by honorable observers when this principle is about to be misapplied: "A superficially simple phenomenon may have a complex mechanism behind it; a simple explanation would be simplistic if it failed to capture all the essential and relevant parts."
Read that again: "A superficially simple phenomenon may have a complex mechanism behind it."
Are you aware of a more pleasingly and accurately succinct definition of an intelligence operation?
Are you aware of a more pleasingly and accurately succinct definition of a cover story, or "legend"?
Intelligence operations are protected by cover stories which are designed to provide to parsimony law enforcement authorities the illusion of successful penetration.
The "evidence" proffered in support of the Lone Nut cover story was designed to confound topicality with mere simplicity.
Again: "A simple explanation would be simplistic if it failed to capture all the essential and relevant parts."
I have witnessed first-hand how an infamous academic repeatedly misapplied the law of parsimony as a key element in his defense of the Lone Nut cover story. His classic arguments from false (or in these instances, perverted) authority held sway with naive undergraduates and malpracticing educators, university administrators. and journalists.
The application of pseudo-science in defense of criminality remains a cornerstone of the JFK cover-up.
While the truth is impervious to all attempts to disfigure it, its lifelines to those most in need of its redemptive qualities far too often are cut by these charlatans who, knowingly or not, do the killers' business.
The principle known either as Occam's Razor or lex parsimoniae (the law of parsimony) states that "the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory."
Stated another way, "plurality should not be posited without necessity."
The caveat most often raised by honorable observers when this principle is about to be misapplied: "A superficially simple phenomenon may have a complex mechanism behind it; a simple explanation would be simplistic if it failed to capture all the essential and relevant parts."
Read that again: "A superficially simple phenomenon may have a complex mechanism behind it."
Are you aware of a more pleasingly and accurately succinct definition of an intelligence operation?
Are you aware of a more pleasingly and accurately succinct definition of a cover story, or "legend"?
Intelligence operations are protected by cover stories which are designed to provide to parsimony law enforcement authorities the illusion of successful penetration.
The "evidence" proffered in support of the Lone Nut cover story was designed to confound topicality with mere simplicity.
Again: "A simple explanation would be simplistic if it failed to capture all the essential and relevant parts."
I have witnessed first-hand how an infamous academic repeatedly misapplied the law of parsimony as a key element in his defense of the Lone Nut cover story. His classic arguments from false (or in these instances, perverted) authority held sway with naive undergraduates and malpracticing educators, university administrators. and journalists.
The application of pseudo-science in defense of criminality remains a cornerstone of the JFK cover-up.