Occam's Razor...
... is purely applicable to natural phenomena. The fundemental assumption of the method of parsimony is that nature is not trying to trick us i.e a simple explanation is more likely to be true than a complex one. A successful conspiracy (by definition) will always have a false explanation that is simpler than the true explanation.

Regarding the news channels. I think my point still stands; only a fool would issue a newswire about an event that they had planned but had not carried out yet. Why bother when the news outlets would find out by themselves in short order? I just can't see what they stood to gain.
(silene, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 21:01, Reply)