Qui Bono?
Events discussed here are events with
dubious or multiple explanations, likely construed to
benefit ideological, religious or other
power-related interests. Some of the events analyzed were obscured by the plain lack of
perspicuity. Others were intentionally
obscured by those with power to use mass media media to disseminate
disinformation. In many cases the true reasons behind these events were obscured by
the passage of time. However, the significant temporal distance can also provide the
perspective necessary to see who the real benefactors were, offer plausible answers to the 'qui bono' question,
and to provide
clues pertaining to the background of malfeasances shrouded in secrecy. Like in any other
scientific undertaking, we strive to arrive at the
most likely, logical, unbiased, parsimonious, and internally consistent
interpretations of socially relevant events, open to reconceptualization if a better explanation is offered
or additional facts emerge.
Many of the discussed events were selected with an intent to break taboos enveloping some religious and ideological matters. These taboos and their emerging criminalization abridge freedom in general and research in social sciences in particular.
Chapter II Death of a Princess
Chapter III Malediction
Chapter IV The First Casualty of War
Chapter V Credibility of Foreign Informants
Chapter VI Confabulations of Nurse Nayirah
Chapter VII Jumana Hanna and Sara Solovitch
Chapter VIII Origins of the First World War
Chapter IX Ritual Slaughter
Chapter X Search for Implausible Narratives