JFK Assassination Forum

Payette keeps hiding behind his juvenile talking point that all conspiracy theorists have warped minds and thus can't deal logically with evidence.

Hello, what? I am entirely open to plausible conspiracy theories. That was the entire point of my thread on that topic. Most of my posts over the past several weeks have been quite CT-friendly. You're simply tilting at straw men.

There is a vast body of psychological and sociological literature dealing with the conspiracy-prone personality. The literature emphasizes that it is not "warped" or pathological per se. At the fringes of conspiracy thinking, however, it borders on pathological. This is true of every area of weirdness in which I have been deeply involved. There is the "weirdness community" and then there is the "lunatic fringe of the weirdness community."

You are well into the fringe. For all of your pontification and publication, I see no evidence that your work is taken seriously even within the CT community. It's just too goofy. Sure, John Armstrong, Doug Horne, et al., have their cult-like followings, but they are just too goofy for rational CTers that demand some level of plausibility. I don't see that you even have such a following. It appears to me that you are the proverbial legend in your own mind.

The very title of this thread is classic crank-speak: Undeniable Proof of Fraud: The Impossible JFK Autopsy Photos. Anyone attempting to present a plausible argument knows to avoid this absolutist sort of language that can never deliver what it promises. But not a crank; he really thinks he has "undeniable proof" of "impossible" things.

Plausibility is the enemy of an interesting story.

Still another law journal article questioning the reliability of eyewitness memory:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13657127211031018

This sentence jumped out at me:

"However, research clearly shows that memory does not operate like a video recorder and that a witness's memory will often not be a full and accurate description of an event."

How many times have I said the human brain is not equipped with a DVR?

Another article on the unreliability of eyewitness accounts:

https://lawshun.com/article/is-eyewitness-testimony-reliable-in-the-court-of-law

The last paragraph in this article pretty much sums up my skepticism of eyewitnesses. In fact this single sentence spells out my reasons for not placing blind trust in eyewitnesses:

"While eyewitness accounts can provide valuable insights, they must be treated with caution and corroborated with other evidence whenever possible."

That is exactly what I've been saying on this forum since I first began participating in it earlier this year.

It has been a long time since we have discussed Ukraine. A couple of years ago, particularly after Trump won the 2024 election, some here were arguing that things were hopeless for Ukraine. Well, how are things going there? Russia gains have ground to a half. Their main efforts now seem to be to kill as many Ukrainian civilians as they can.

Will the Ukrainian civilians stand up to these drone attacks? I am confident that the answer is yes. So far, in four years of war, Russian has killed around 15,800 Ukrainian civilians, according to the UN's OHCHR estimates. How do these losses, in proportion to their population, rank with other civilian loses in the past and recently.

Germany, 1940-1945: One in 177 civilians killed
Great Britain, 1940-1945: One in 618 civilians killed
America, 2022-2026, One in 2,068 civilians killed in automobile accidents.
Ukraine, 2022-2026, One in 2,318 known civilians killed by Russia.

I expect America to throw in the towel and swear off driving cars before I see Ukraine throw in the towel.

Also, likely far more Ukrainians have died in face-to-face encounters with Russian troops than from drone or missile attack. Most of these deaths are unrecorded because they occur in Russian held territory. But when Ukraine recaptured a lot of territory in the spring of 2022, the bodies of 4,313 were found, killed not by drones but Russia troops. The true number of Ukrainians killed by drones or missiles is more like 12,000. And the number of Ukrainian civilians killed at close range by Russian troops is likely several times that. Giving in to Russia will likely not cause this death rate to stop but to greatly increase.

Ukraine has a wolf by the ears. They have no other choice. And as they stay the course, the wolf is getting weaker and weaker and must eventually whimper for mercy and abandon all Ukrainian territory. It will quickly turn into a strong wolf if they do otherwise.

Slava Ukraine !