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JFK Assassination Logic - How to Think About Claims of Conspiracy (Paperback)
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JFK Assassination Logic - How to Think About Claims of Conspiracy (Paperback)
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The mother of all conspiracy theories is about the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy. Many of its elements have become part of
American folklore: the single bullet, the Grassy Knoll shooter, and
the mysterious deaths of interested parties. JFK Assassination
Logic shows how to approach such conspiracy claims. Studying Lee
Harvey Oswald's character and personality, for example, doesn't
help determine whether he alone shot the president, and our opinion
of bureaucrats can often cloud our judgments. How people view the
JFK assassination can be a model for how to (or perhaps how not to)
evaluate other conspiracy theories, including those generally
considered dubious-such as President Roosevelt's foreknowledge of
Pearl Harbor, desert staging of the 1969 moon landing, and U.S.
government involvement in 9/11-as well as those based on fact, such
as Watergate. John McAdams addresses not only conspiracy theories,
but also how to think, reason, and judge the evidence in these
cases. How do we evaluate eyewitness testimony? How can there
be"too much evidence" of a conspiracy? How do we determine whether
suspicious people are really culpable? By putting the JFK
assassination under the microscope, McAdams provides a blueprint
for understanding how conspiracy theories arise and how to judge
the evidence. This book puts the reader into a mass of
contradictory evidence and presents an intriguing puzzle to be
solved. The solution, in each case, involves using intellectual
tools. Eyewitness testimony, the notion of"coincidence,"
selectivity in the use of evidence, how to choose between
contradictory pieces of evidence, the need for evidence to fit a
coherent theory, how government works, and basic principles of
social theorizing-all provide the elements of how to judge not only
the JFK conspiracy but all conspiracies.
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