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Occam's Razor
Robert — (archived)

It was a toss-up for me between the Occam reference, and a reference to superstition as the confusion of cause-and-effect...

It's understandable that you'd want to dismiss the consensus of historians about Bush as merely part of the Vast Leftwing Academic Conspiracy, but that's not the simplest explanation, nor the one that follows a straightline causal path. You're talking about historians, whose profession it is to study the past, including in this case the past performance of American Presidents, and reach conclusions based upon that study.

The simplest and causally least-convulated path to their consensus judgment is that Bush's performance really is inferior to that of some large portion of past American Presidents.

It's remarkable the way that you and other Rightists construct conspiracy theories when professionals produce judgments that you don't like. How does this differ from the behavior of anomalists and psuedoscientists in constructing conspiracy theories and shrieking "prejudice!" when scientific judgments don't go their way?

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