Pynchon name-checked by Michiko--this random world--in conspiracy debunking book

[Humberto Torofuerte]

I think some of these examples touch upon a vital corollary of Occam's
razor...which states that one should never attribute to malice that
which can just as plausibly be attributed to incompetence.

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> Been hearing Aaronovitch on the radio.  His thesis has major flaws and is
> built around straw men like 9-11as inside job  and the Elders of Zion. He
> doesn't have the guts to explore instances when a handful of of voices spoke
> out against a conspiracy and were marginalized , then proved right.
> Examples: the progressive left said no weapons of Mass destruction , no to
> Saddam involvement with 9-11. Danny Schechter, Nouriel Roubini, and Jim
> Kunstler very accurately predicted the financial meltdown and described the
> criminal fraud that led to this event. A handful of reporters, one from
> Fortune questioned the reality of Enron's "success".