September 13, 2004
Occam's Razor
Which seems the simpler explanation?:
- Attempts to recreate the memos using Microsoft Word and Times New Roman produce images so close that even taking into account the fact that the image we were able to download from the CBS site has been copied, scanned, downloaded, and reprinted, the errors between the "authentic" document and a file created by anyone using Microsoft word are virtually indistinguishable.
- The font existed in 1972; there were technologies in 1972 that could, with elaborate effort, reproduce these memos, and these technologies and the skills to use them were used by someone who, by testimony of his own family, never typed anything, in an office that for all its other documents appears to have used ordinary monospaced typewriters, and therefore this unlikely juxtaposition of technologies and location coincided just long enough to produce these four memos on 04-May-1972, 18-May-1972, 01-August-1972, and 18-August-1973.
From a
post by Dr. Joseph Newcomer (
resume), an expert on computer typesetting.
UPDATE: Dr. Newcomer's ISP has requested he not chew up their bandwidth, and the post has been pulled, pending relocation. new link added above
Posted by Kevin Murphy at September 13, 2004 09:27 AM
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Same here: http://freecache.org/http:/www.flounder.com/bush2.htm
Thats supposed to be the new location from what I can tell. I also offered to post it. I also locked onto the "occams razor" thing and asked not what evidence is there that they are forgiers, but rather " what evidence is there that they are genuine"? The evidence pile for genuine is very very small, while the 'fraud' pile continues to grow.
My 'occams razor' is analysis is at:
http://varifrank.typepad.com/varifrank/2004/09/occams_razor.html