The Diary — Old Hoax or New or Not a Hoax at All?​

[Herlock Sholmes]

Constant recourse to desperate ‘wriggle room’ tactics demonstrates clearly the weakness of your arguments Lombro. You remind me of those fundamentalists who say things like “God put fossils there as a test of faith.” Every time you do it you show that you are employing a kind of ‘bunker mentality.’ A ‘defend-at-all-costs’ outlook to the case when it should be that we just look for what is either certainly true or likeliest to have been true. There are a few who have circled the wagons and are trapped in the cause of defending an obvious forgery.

That should read “aren’t constrained by the need to make sense” of course.