Pynchon name-checked by Michiko--this random world--in conspiracy debunking book
Robert Mahnke
rpmahnke at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 10:17:16 CST 2010
Occam's Razor doesn't say that the simplest explanation is always right,
just that it's most likely to be right. So some of the conspiracy theories
will be right. But which ones?
On 2/16/10, Humberto Torofuerte <strongbool at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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".
>
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