Sometimes a politician leaves the microphone on. Sometimes eyewitnesses come up with different descriptions of the suspect. Sometimes one hand doesn’t know what the other hand is doing. Even an idiot is sometimes right and even a liar sometimes tells the truth. In the real world these things just happen.
Of course I’m skeptical, but I’m trying to look at the information itself to see if it jibes with what I’ve already seen and I try to question it’s source separately. I’m accustomed to seeing conflicting and contradictory indicators out there and the only rational way for me to reconcile those strays is to realize it’s not all going to come out in shades of either black or white.
This could indeed be a conspiracy by NAR to open a new marketing angle from which to profit. I may be very suspicous of their motives. However, I’ve learned that hard way that the more I publicly dally with accusations I can’t back up, the more likely it is that I’m going to occasionally be proven wrong on those accustations in an equally public manner. Much easier to stick to the information first and deal with it’s sources as a secondary point of interest.
