Arguments that prove too much prove nothing.
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
Just because there's glass on the road don't mean there's been an accident.
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.
The history of palaeontology is littered with examples of famous frauds and fakes, often with eminent researchers in the field being thoroughly hoodwinked by some fairly shoddy fabrications.
Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
