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Cont: JFK Conspiracy Theories VI: Lyndon Johnson's Revenge

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Just for giggles, I wonder how many shots one would hear recorded In any busy urban setting on sixties dicta-belt recordings.
 

This will be handwaved away (as usual). Its easier to just accuse the alphabet soup of lying so that the CT nincompoopery can be preserved

To paraphrase the words of S.G. Collins..

Once you are forced to hypothesise whole new lies to keep your conspiracy possible, you have stepped over into the realm of magic, requiring of you a deep and abiding faith in things you can never know.
 

I'll save you the time, he'll say they're all wrong for whatever reason.

All these acoustic experts and scientists are wrong, and poor Don Thomas the entomologist is a poor misunderstood genius.
 
What more recent analysis?

;), now that you are forced to acknowledge all of the various entities which have comprehensively debunked the HSCA findings, you have the burden of proof to show how they all got it wrong and your bug guy got it right.

Your one CT website won't be able to help you, obviously, any more than they have with every other topic you've had your head handed to you about.
 
Nope. I am pretty sure my Modern Apprenticeship in an engineering discipline makes me one of the lesser qualified people in the room.

I am more than happy to be corrected if there is any obvious flaw to my reading of the paper.


Not as far as I can see, in the paper itself. They made their assumptions clear, and stated the terms of the probability, and the scope of the paper was limited.
However, the way it is framed by many CT sources *is* fallacious.
They assume that because the impulses *could match* with a level of certainty, then they *did*.
It would be wise not to put other peoples senseless rantings under my signature, as if their short commings were actually, mine.

Thank you.
 
;), now that you are forced to acknowledge all of the various entities which have comprehensively debunked the HSCA findings, you have the burden of proof to show how they all got it wrong and your bug guy got it right.

Your one CT website won't be able to help you, obviously, any more than they have with every other topic you've had your head handed to you about.
No, it’s the other way around. IF anyone find any merit in any of the ’studies’ proclaiming to have refuted the HSCA acoustic evidence, they have to explain why.

Except for you, RoboTimbo, for you a blue idiot smiley will suffice.
 
No, it’s the other way around. IF anyone find any merit in any of the ’studies’ proclaiming to have refuted the HSCA acoustic evidence, they have to explain why.

Except for you, RoboTimbo, for you a blue idiot smiley will suffice.

Once again, here is the overlap in Hughes and Zapruder in full motion. Watch the white car making the turn from Houston to Elm.

Hughes:

https://youtu.be/b9ZDVD-vq-w?t=41

Zapruder:

https://youtu.be/Sqk3sdfXFkc?t=9

and in slow motion

https://youtu.be/Sqk3sdfXFkc?t=55

Both clips show the same vehicle starting the same turn. There is your synchronization.
 
No. You are the one claiming they are refuting the HSCA acoustic evidence since they are using ”a million times more sophisticated technology”, absent at the time of the original investigation.

Begin with naming ONE and explain the new technology and how/why it refutes the HSCA acoustic evidence.

I can’t do this for you.
 
No. You are the one claiming they are refuting the HSCA acoustic evidence since they are using ”a million times more sophisticated technology”, absent at the time of the original investigation.

Begin with naming ONE and explain the new technology and how/why it refutes the HSCA acoustic evidence.

I can’t do this for you.

I posted an entire section from the 2006 Science and Justice article dealing specifically with Don Thomas and the myriad of mistakes he made.

Did you miss it? Would you like me to post it again?
 
A brief fable about the importance of base assumptions:

Once upon a time there was well known trophy hunter who, with exclusive coverage from a popular British newspaper, was going to prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster.

He set baited traps, and arranged cameras to watch the few areas that a predatory animal the size of Nessie, would have to, by necessity of survival, visit often.

After some days, large marking in sand and mud were found, that looked, to the hunter's eyes, like footprints.

Now, science can tell a lot from footprints. By careful measurements, one can calculate the size, body length, weight and probable height of the creature. The hunter, and his associates were able to extrapolate, all of these and more. The probability of there being an unknown apex predator in the Loch, with a size and weight not unlike that of a dinosaur was so large it was a certainty, far more certain than any other outcome...
*IF* the marks were footprints.

That is to say, *if* the base assumption, that there was a single creature leaving those tracks, was correct.

Then a problem arose. The prints were all left by the same foot.
Not a creature with four, feet, but... the same foot, with the same toes, and the same markings on the sole.

It was discovered, eventually, that locals had "borrowed" an umbrella stand made from an elephant's foot from the pub, and left the tracks.

How is this relevant?

Because, in the scenario of the acoustic evidence, our sauropod is the placement of the motorcycles, and the start time of the recording. Our footprints are the impulse patterns deemed to be significant.

Significance was not determined by the calculations. The calculations were made based on tests that assumed significance. In other words: it was assumed the footprints were left by Nessie, and the tests were done to find where he had to be standing at the time, to leave those prints.

It can not be assumed the motorcycle was in the right place *because* the acoustic pattern then fits the five shots.

It must be *shown* a motorcycle was within nine feet, for pattern to match five shots with such a high probability.

Getting this back to front, and claiming it is logical, is intellectually dishonest. It is misrepresenting the data, and doing a did-service to those who compiled it.
You, willfully misrepresenting the methods used in the HSCA acoustic joint investigation doesn’t say anything about the actual investigation. It does say a whole lot about you, though. Your intentions and reasons for taking part in the discussion of said investigation.
 
No, it’s the other way around. IF anyone find any merit in any of the ’studies’ proclaiming to have refuted the HSCA acoustic evidence, they have to explain why.

Except for you, RoboTimbo, for you a blue idiot smiley will suffice.

No, it's the other way around, ;). You have the burden of proof since the HSCA acoustical findings have been thoroughly scientifically gutted. Your bug guy got it wrong.

How do you intend to proceed to show where so many scientific findings debunking your bug guy got it wrong? So far, you're just looking foolish, ;).
 
I posted an entire section from the 2006 Science and Justice article dealing specifically with Don Thomas and the myriad of mistakes he made.

Did you miss it? Would you like me to post it again?
You can post the entire report if you like, it still doesn’t say why YOU find it’s conclusions valid.

State your claim. Quote and source relevant data. Explain. Argue.

Get it?
 
No. You are the one claiming they are refuting the HSCA acoustic evidence

No, the studies themselves claim this..

"Richard E. Sprague, an expert on photographic evidence of the assassination and a consultant to the HSCA, noted that the amateur film the HSCA relied on showed that there were no motorcycles between those riding alongside the rear of the presidential limousine and H.B. McLain's motorcycle, and that other films showed McLain's motorcycle was actually 250 feet behind the presidential limousine when the first shot was fired, not 120 to 138 feet. No motorcycle was anywhere near the target area."
This refutes the HSCA findings. No comment or explanation needed. All you need to do is be able to read and comprehend.

The Technical Services Division of the FBI studied the acoustical data and issued a report on December 1, 1980 (dated November 19, 1980). The FBI report concluded that the HSCA failed to prove that there were gunshots on the recording and also failed to prove that the recording was made in Dealey Plaza. In fact, using the techniques of the previous investigators, the FBI matched a gunshot recorded in Greensboro, NC in 1979 with the sound that was supposedly a shot from the grassy knoll - proving that the initial investigation's methods were invalid.
This also refutes the HSCA findings, and again, no further comment or explanation is needed. All you need to do is be able to read and comprehend.

The US Justice Department paid for a review by the National Academy of Sciences, a U.S. corporation operating with a Title 36 congressional charter. A panel of scientists headed by Dr. Norman Ramsey issued a report in 1982 which agreed with Barber and determined that there was no compelling evidence for gunshots on the recording and that the HSCA's suspect impulses were recorded about a minute after the shooting happened.
And again, a clear refutation of the HSCA findings.

The Justice Department reviewed the HSCA report and the National Academy of Science's study of the acoustical evidence. It reported to the Judiciary Committee on March 28, 1988 and rebuked the HSCA'a conclusion of a probable conspiracy.
And again

In 2003, an independent researcher named Michael O'Dell reported that both the National Academy and Dr. Thomas had used incorrect timelines because they assumed the Dictabelt ran continuously. When corrected, these showed the impulses happened too late to be the real shots even with Thomas's alternative synchronization. In addition, he showed that, due to a mathematical misunderstanding and the presence of a known impulse pattern in the background noise, there never was a 95% or higher probability of a shot from the grassy knoll.
And again.

I could continue with more for a few more pages, but I have probably already wasted my time because you are not open to ANY evidence or scientific study that opposes your fantasy world view. As usual for CT's you have latched on to one spurious, repeatedly debunked study that supports your case, and you cling to it desperately while frantically handwaving away the overwhelming evidence that you are wrong. The HSCA acoustics study is deeply flawed and a dead duck... it was a dead duck from the outset.
 
You, willfully misrepresenting the methods used in the HSCA acoustic joint investigation doesn’t say anything about the actual investigation. It does say a whole lot about you, though. Your intentions and reasons for taking part in the discussion of said investigation.

And there goes the the next square on the CT Bingo card... when you don't have a response to the poster, you attack the poster's credibility and motives.

In CT world, anyone who disagrees with you is by default wrong, a liar, a paid shill or part of the conspiracy.
 
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