Icke

Adequacy.org speaks in praise of David Icke. You may remember Mr Icke from a previous post of mine; he believes in an elaborate conspiracy theory in which the ruling elite of the world are extraterrestrial pædophile shapeshifting lizards in disguise.

Consider, the following:

• David Icke believes that the former US President George Herschel Walker Bush is a lizard and a drug dealer.
• The Washington Post believes that former US President George Herschel Walker Bush is not a lizard, and not a drug dealer.
• Adequacy.org believes that former US President George Herschel Walker Bush is not a lizard, but is a drug dealer.

So, it appears that we disagree with Icke on the subject of whether Bush was a lizard, and with the Post on the subject of whether Bush was a heroin pusher. And the fact is that, while it's more or less impossible to prove one way or the other whether Bush is an Annunaki lizard from the fourth dimension, it's very easy indeed to show that Bush was the head of the CIA during the period in which Air America was carrying opium by the ton from Burma and Laos to the heroin labs of Hong Kong and Saigon, from whence it was sold to American GIs. So it appears that David Icke makes a claim that is pretty difficult to believe, with not much evidence in favour of it, while the Washington Post is asking us to believe something in the face of a vast amount of conclusive contradictory evidence.

Ouch! Doctor, I think I just sprained my epistemology!