The Kennedy Assassination And The Persistence Of Conspiracy Theories -- Part V
/From reading the comments on this series, it appears that several people are eagerly awaiting my pronouncement of which theory of the Kennedy assassination I think is correct.
Unfortunately for those commenters, as I said back in Part I, “I don’t have any clear belief as to whether the official version of the events is correct or whether there was a conspiracy.” That remains the case. I have not intended this series as the way to advocate for my own preferred theory, although perhaps inevitably it would be perceived that way. Instead I have intended this series to use the Kennedy assassination as a vehicle to explore the question of how we know what we think we know.
The Kennedy assassination provides an excellent illustration of the proposition that, in considering the truth of a hypothesis, the accumulation of facts consistent with the hypothesis is not nearly as important as those facts, even if few in number, that are at least arguably inconsistent with the hypothesis.