Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Those threads have been depressing. We're really no better than freepers sometimes when it comes to baseless speculation and determination to pin the tail on the donkey when it comes to our favourite villains.

We should all remember Richard Jewell. I've never forgotten how the mob turned on him because he looked wrong to be a hero. RIP, Richard.

We all have our prejudices, but not all of us are aware of them enough to keep them from influencing our opinions. I myself was so willing to believe that one of the hyper-Christian fathers of one of the child victims in the West Memphis three case was the killer that it was downright humbling to be proven wrong and to realise I was as much pre-judging as the West Memphis community itself had been.

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts" -- Sherlock Holmes

The author may have been a gullible faery-fancier, but he had a way with words.