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Originally Posted by Joe Durnavich
This is at least the 10th time you have uncritically parroted an out-of-context quotation, severely mangled paraphrase, or factoid from some conspiracist web site...
At least the 10th time on this forum. He does it quite often on the www.apollohoax.net forum too. JFK thread As you have been doing so well, you have to go straight to the primary source materials and find out what was actually said or stated.
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Yes, I lurk on apollohoax sometimes; possibly I'll join eventually (maybe the next time there's a new Pearl Harbor or JFK thread). I prefer the stricter rules on decorum and debating in force here, though.
Possibly it's because I have a B.A. in American history, but it just seems obvious to me that one needs to go back to primary sources whenever possible in order to draw conclusions about historical events. It occurs to me that the failure of many conspiracists to do so is a sign of intellectual laziness; the deliberate misrepresentation of original documents (such as the blurry television quote) by some conspiracists is a sign of intellectual dishonesty.
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