Unicorns
In discussing intelligence analysts I often said that no professional analyst would ever make a flat, unequivocal negative statement, because you can’t prove negatives. My example was usually: “an intelligence analyst would never claim there were no unicorns.”
Now there is a case in point from Billings, Montana on March 14: Man Tells Cops Unicorn Caused Crash
A man told police not to blame him for crashing his truck into a light post – it was that unicorn behind the wheel. Prosecutor Ingrid Rosenquist said Phillip C. Holliday Jr. initially denied driving the truck involved in the March 7 crash in Billings. He told officers at the scene that a unicorn was driving, she said.
See, the analyst who claimed there are no unicorns would have to explain his position, and be asked, probably by Dana Rohrabacher, if he/she had checked Billings before making that statement.
Update: Elayne Riggs at Comicmix has a follow-up – it was the prosecutor, not the drunk, who brought up unicorns.
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Debunked, sort of. See my posts on this at http://www.comicmix.com for more info.
The Unicorn in the Garden:
I’ll update Elayne, thanks.
Nice, John.