“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Thanks to our QTreeper realsauce who posted a great Tom Petty video, Won't Back Down, here: LINK: https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/08/14/speech-protecting-the-red-flags/comment-page-1/#comment-230851 Suddenly I remembered one of my FAVORITE videos of all times - the one where Tom Petty understood FAKE NEWS, FAKE ENTERTAINMENT, FAKE SCIENCE and FAKE HISTORY literally DECADES before we did. https://youtu.be/TCFAzPl1QmE Here are the original … Continue reading Scammin' Me
This epiphany-celebrating DISTRUST AND VERIFY BY SECRET METHODS MONDAY Open Thread is VERY OPEN. You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on. Keep it civil. Rules much like the Old Treehouse, except of course Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged. A couple of other important things to consider. This … Continue reading Dear MAGA: 20190211 Open Topic
As I've said before in the VLWC series, we discover nothing new, but we do rediscover what has been hidden from us by time and craftier people. Over and over, the truth is hidden and revealed. Somewhere, a Soviet KGB analyst rediscovered this timeless principle, marveled at it, and filed it away for his next … Continue reading Darkness to Light: Eckert's Law