Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> wrote: Quite funny to see conspiracy experts repeat the holy words >
Your response is good. There is a mistake we all make from time to time, but I think people such as Mary Yugo are especially prone to making it. You start by saying: "I think X is true." And then: "There may be evidence for X" And then: "Since X is true . . ." People who do "conterfactual history" often makes this mistake. I mentioned here a good example in book by Conrad Black: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg72299.html (I spelled "conterfactual" as "contractual" here.) I do not think much of counterfactual history. - Jed
