https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/on-the-loss-of-occam-s-razor-in-the-jfk-case
On the Loss of Occam's Razor in the JFK Case
A guest essay by Nicholas Nalli on Jefferson Morley misuse of Occam's Razor.
"That said, however, the conclusion of the paper that JFK was shot in the head from behind does indeed adhere to Occam’s Razor, specifically in the interpretation of Zapruder Frames Z312–Z313, where the forward head-snap of JFK’s head is clearly evident concurrent with the head wound.
The simplest (and best) explanation for this observation was an impulse caused by a high-speed bullet fired from the rear."
I don't think Nick Nalli is a credible source, given Dr. David Mantik's demolition of his deeply flawed analysis (see link below).
The simplest and most logical explanation for JFK's fierce backward movement is that an object hit him from the front and propelled him backward, just as we see in countless war and execution footage. The two theories offered to attribute the backward movement to a shot from the rear are both silly, convoluted, and unscientific--the jet-effect theory (which even premier lone-gunman apologist and wound ballistics expert Dr. Larry SPersonivan rejects) and the neuromuscular-reaction theory (which neuroscientist Dr. Robert Zacharko, among other experts, says is impossible in this case).
The Omissions and Miscalculations of Nicholas Nalli
https://themantikview.org/pdf/Omissions_and_Miscalculations_of_Nicholas_Nalli.pdfThis is Dr. Mantik's critique of Nalli's claims.
Scientist’s Trick ‘Explains’ JFK Backward Movement When Shot
https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/scientist-neutralizes-jfks-back-and-to-the-left-or-does-he/This is another critique of Nalli's claims, written by Milicent Cranor, a medical writer.
Speaking of Occam's Razor, the simplest explanation for the small bullet fragments on the back of JFK's head in the autopsy skull x-rays is that they are ricochet fragments, since FMJ bullets never, ever, ever deposit fragments on the outer table of the skull when they enter a skull, as even Dr. SPersonivan has acknowledged, and since no FMJ bullet in the known history of forensic science has done this (the HSCA FPP could not cite a single case where an FMJ bullet did this, and no FMJ bullet in the three JFK wound ballistics tests that have been conducted has done this).
The simplest explanation for the fact that none of the Master-rated riflemen in the WC's rifle test were able to duplicate Oswald's alleged shooting feat is that Oswald did not perform that feat. (Note that the rifle test was the only test that used the alleged murder weapon itself.)
The simplest explanation for the astounding fact that the first shot missed not only JFK but the entire huge limousine is that that shot was not fired from the sixth-floor window but from a lower window of a nearby building, since a shot from a lower window could have barely missed JFK's head and then easily and plausibly missed the limo as well.
The simplest explanation for the fact that dozens of witnesses in three different locations said there was a sizable visible hole in the back of the head, including two of the morticians who reassembled the skull, the Parkland nurses who cleaned the wound, and a Secret Service agent who got a prolonged look at the wound from just a few feet away and saw the wound twice more that day, is that there was a sizable visible hole in the back of the head.
The simplest explanation for the virtually whole brain seen in the JFK autopsy photos and for the wildly implausible brain weight of 1,500 grams is that that brain could not be JFK's brain, since we know that brain matter from JFK's brain was blown onto at least 16 surfaces, including two windshields, numerous places inside the limo, and the trunk of the limo, and since "fragmented sections of brain" dropped onto the drapes of the emergency room cart at Parkland Hospital, and since OD measurements have confirmed that only about 30% of the entire right side of the brain is present in the autopsy skull x-rays.
The simplest explanation for the astounding fact that the autopsy report says nothing about the high fragment trail seen on the skull x-rays and the equally astounding fact that those x-rays don't show the low fragment trail described in the autopsy report (and reaffirmed by the autopsy doctors in 1966) is that the autopsy materials and the autopsy report do not show/describe all of the bullet fragments/trails that were present in JFK's head on the night of the autopsy.
And on and on we could go.
