re: #255 Charles Johnson

I find it hard to believe that a high-placed member - maybe Joe Bast himself - would not know that Koch did not sponsor anti-AGW denial with such large sums. And the memo would surely be prepared by such a high-placed member - note how it mentions that it would be distributed only to the select members of the Board, not even to the whole Board.

Again, I do leave a small chance to it being sheer incompetence, but that’s just an ad hoc solution. The prima facie evidence is still against the memo’s authenticity.

And mistakes aside, DSB’s analysis would only prove that the memo corresponds to the other documents. It would not show its authenticity. That can be proven only by forensic means, IMHO. So I think there’s both a logical failure and a factual failure on DSB’s part here.

I’d rather they focused on the reliably authentic documents. By focusing on the memo they’re playing with a tarbaby.