Dr. Joseph Newcomer, whose 20-page (when printed out) analysis of the CBS memos concluded they were either complete forgeries or were made by a small elf spinning them out of gold after Dan Rather guessed his name, has responded to the Columbia Review of "Journalism".
Go to LGF to read his comments. Here, I'll merely note that the good doctor has as much as admitted to a serious miscalculation:
Never forget that Charles Johnson of LGF produced the actual, definitive, conclusive, inarguable example which proved that the memos were forgeries, within hours of their release. Of course he was delighted that there was substantial scientific justification for his conclusion. Any researcher is always pleased when an independent scientist can reproduce his results using a different approach. What is sad here is that Johnson’s obvious simple experiment was denigrated by those who were incapable of logical thought. My mistake was to think that such people could be convinced by additional compelling evidence. This led me into this whole fray.
I've compared deniers of bias in the media with creationists. Both groups have in common that they rally the troops to combat a pernicious idea that has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, but not beyond an unreasonable doubt.
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