A Penguin in the Orchard

Skepticism Echoed

While it might be easy to dismiss Harry Shearer as a merely a humorist, he’s the first person I’ve heard in any media outlet to echo my skepticism about the British terrorist plot.

The Blog | Harry Shearer: The Alleged Airliner Plot–a Call for Skepticism | The Huffington Post

Obviously, at this point, none of us–nobody reading or writing to this site–has a real basis for knowing whether any of this is true or not. Nor do most of the people speaking and writing at us in the media. Responsible skepticism–not imagining conspiracies, but a demand that governments, even governments with a history of severely spinning the truth, be held to a standard of veracity–is a voice that needs to be heard right about now.

The “history of severely spinning the truth,” on the part of both the US and British governments, is reason enough for skepticism.