Initial assumptions
• Not my ideas—I am only the messenger.
• Only one right answer (self-evident).
—Various viewpoints can yield various parts of the overall truth.
• Only one best way to the answer
—Not all methods created equal. Some are better, for clear reasons.
—No cultural relativism here.
—Many ways to be wrong and only one way to be right.
—Nearly all JFK researchers use flawed methods.
—Reminiscent of modernism/postmodernism or science/antiscience.
• Follow classical procedures (centuries-old dictates of reasoning).
—They have passed the tests of time.
—They can be applied to many other problems.
• Deviate from these procedures at your own risk.
—JFK community has wandered because they have lost touch with these procedures.