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These words work. However, I don't expect a judge or a defendant to be part of Grand Jury proceedings. The Grand Jury is about the prosecutor and the jury investigating, and the jury determining probable cause.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_1 Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure TITLE I. APPLICABILITY Rule 1. Scope; Definitions (b) Definitions. The following definitions apply to these rules: (2) “Court” means a federal judge performing functions authorized by law. The prosecutor and...

Your "usefulness" is entirely negative. "conditions to doubt" just means you reject useful information. But a conspiracy theory does not teach what we should do to gain trust in information. if anything, the information that CTists hold true is even more doubtful than the information they...

The court has to, but we don't. If we see that their "best evidence" doesn't hold up, we can see that either their evidence as a whole doesn't hold up, or that the lawyers are inept. @econ41 "stage (1) before the GJ" I would expect that a corpus delicti needs to be proven here. Kinda like the...

"mental disorders" -- that's an escalation I wasn't prepared for I was talking about something else entirely. To give you a simple example, imagine someone has no idea about music: it's all noise to them. They can't tell if a musician is any good because they don't know anything about it. But...

@Jeffrey Orling Someone needs to fix your quote tags, your 1:23 reply appears as part of the quoted text. I would hope that the DA presents expert testimony to the grand jury that puts the submitted evidence into perspective.

The issue is, does a lawyer have an ethical obligation to tell their client that their case has little chance of success? Which would, in this case, include the public contributing their money to the cause? Is it ok for them to present their evidence as "compelling" when they know it isn't? Can...

It occurs to me that there is a follow-up problem: if you have learned to question and seek answers, you can often recognize other people doing the same; and you can often recognize other people NOT doing it. But what if you haven't? And that's a problem for Flat Earthers: they admit to having...

https://www.lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org/frequently-asked-questions/ Q: If you had to make your case using just three pieces of evidence/information, what would they be? A: If you have read our entire Petition, you understand that there are about 20 categories of relevant evidence, and...

Richard Feynman, "What is science?", 1966: He [Bacon] spoke of making observations, but omitted the vital factor of judgment about what to observe and what to pay attention to. This phenomenon of having a memory for the race, of having an accumulated knowledge passable from one generation to...

Two Youtubers actually went on an Antarctic flight in January, Critical Think and Greater Sapien (mentioned above), though they are not Flat Earthers. This was the flight path (from CT's 2nd video), the flight originated and ended in Perth, Australia. Critical Think released three videos. The...

The gyrocompass was invented before WW1 and sees service on every submarine and big iron ship, where a magnetic compass would be unreliable or useless. An aquaintance of mine who attends naval school confirmed this for me. He also reported that a ship's gyrocompass takes several hours to start...

@brad fuller my point is that when they explain the sunset and sunrise somehow, the disappearance of the sun would presumably fix the deviant portion of the light curve. So as long as they don't settle on that, we can say "you can't explain the sunset", and when they can, the debunk is useless...

The aether would only affect light, not mechanics, if it existed.

I'd say no, inverse square is useless for debunking, because Flat Earth has yet to provide a mathematical model for the sun's law that explains the sunset. Applying the inverse square law means correlating sunlight to the distance of the sun only, and that means 24 hour sun. If you're on the...

The days of curved CRTs are over, you can just hold a ruler (or the edge of a piece of paper) up to the screen. No computer skills required, though it helps when you're doing it on something bigger than a smartphone. I know they make curved LCDs now, shut up.

He can see all of the stars now, it depends on the time of the observation and whether he can see the horizon, though, as when they set early in the night or rise late, they may be obstructed. He can see the same stars all year, put general like that, his claim is not wrong. Well, it is kinda...

That's correct, the video was released in December 2001. "We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all. (...Inaudible...) due to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt...

I'm not a "9/11 researcher", and I don't understand this at all. I mean, the 9/11 truthers are hung up on the mechanical parts, but they're irrelevant. If we stipulate that there were 4 planes, 2 hitting the WTC and one hitting the Pentagon, then surely that alone would have been enough to...

The demagogues equate "globe Earth lies" with "flat Earth proven" to get around a lack of proof on their own part, and then blow up any doubt or inconsistency they can construct into a lie, which then "proves" flat Earth. In this case, the pattern is "hotel staff representing Globers say Chicago...