Cahalan and the sorrow of Morrow. Quality Versus Quantity?

[Seamus Coogan]

However, the bigger issue is the tendency to dismiss an entire area of legitimate deep political research because a particular individual has made poorly evidenced claims.

[Emphasis added by Drago.]

This is one of the reasons why I was deeply unimpressed with the quality of analysis in Seamus' pieces about Diana and her death, which set up an entirely false dichotomy between Martin Gregory (Good) and Mohammed Al Fayed (Nutter).

Al Fayed's deep pockets and connections meant he was played in the aftermath of the Diana death. The case that Diana's death may not have been a paparazzi-caused-road-accident, as per the official story, is not reliant on Fayed or on gullible folk feeding on her celebrity status.

Claims which are not supported by evidence, which misrepresent evidence, or which overinterpret evidence should be exposed.

However, the core hypothesis may still be worth investigating if evidence is rigorously and fairly analysed.

PRECISELY the critical distinction.

Seamus, mate, you need to take a step back and a deep breath, and then think about the logic of Jan's commentary and the manner in which you ignore it at the peril of our shared work.

I don't ignore it as you will see. Trust me CD. For example just because I don't like Hankey doesn't mean I don't believe there was a conspiracy. Just because I don't like Al Fayed doesn't mean I don't like your guys take on stuff. Just because I find Peter Dale Scott a bit much at times it doesn't mean I don't admire GME or the DPF. I really do start serving at Gregory and the bollocks paradigm he has created. Not to mention his rather obvious ties to MI6. His comments about them never having killed anyone as you know are utterly full of shite. I couldn't believe it when I heard such a lame load of bollocks. Further the idea that Monckton was not informing on Spencer is back to her pals is utter bollocks. In saying all that I admit I have made some mistakes in the piece that I am shaking my head about in many cases. I was wondering if this correspondance and our others could be put in a genuine Diana thread. In my final piece I'd love to put a link to all of the discussions we have had here on the topic.