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Capitalizing on the thirtieth anniversary of JFK’s assassination, Gerald Posner published Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (1993). He asserted that any evidence which pointed away from Oswald as the proverbial lone gunman — which is arguably most of the evidence — was false. In Posner’s opinion, Oswald could have only acted alone, and Posner made many lucrative laps around the lecture circuit advocating the long discredited lone nut”conspiracy theory.
Posner also writes about Nazi war criminals, drugs, and what led to 9/11. Given his stance against physical evidence, this is an unsettling array of subjects…
As described by the authors of 70 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time,
Posner’s method of evading evidence that punctured his thesis was to obfuscate with unsupported assertions stated in a tone of unshakable authority. The counterevidence was usually buried in a footnote”(549).
These tactics of ungrounded authoritarian denial are surprisingly commonplace among those who earn their livelihoods by means of defining common-sense”in opposition to logic and evidence.
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