“Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt” – Francois La Rochefoucauld In May this year, Google introduced a new feature. It is called the Knowledge Graph. It’s not a graph and it doesn’t always impart knowledge, but never mind. You can read about it here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/05/16/google-revamps-search-results-pages-with-knowledge-graph/ Knowledge Graph is a summary box that […]
The forty myths that convicted Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito – Part three
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy Part Three – Myths twentyone to forty Myth 21 – Amanda is sex crazed because she owned a sex toy Amanda had been given a joke going away […]
The forty myths that convicted Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito – Part two
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy Part Two – Myths one to twenty Myth 1 – The Confession that was not a confession There never was a confession, though this is not what the […]
The forty myths that convicted Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito – Part one
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy Part One – Setting the scene Introduction – there are none so blind as those who will not see In my other articles about this case I […]
Amanda Knox, Mignini, witchcraft and tunnel vision – a postscript
This is what happens when police get tunnel vision. They shoot the arrow, then they draw the target. They lose their objectivity and that’s why we have juries. – Raymond Kelly I would like to return to the subject of Mignini’s behaviour and thought processes. Many religious fundamentalists, both Roman Catholic and Protestant still believe in […]
Amanda Knox, witchcraft and the personification of evil
“Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We’re all witches in one way or another. Witches was the invention of mankind, son. We’re all witches beneath the skin.” […]