Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito Acquitted.

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Amanda Knox is no different than outright lies that accused Saddam of 11 September, the obviously mythical WMDs, a victory in Afghanistan in 2003 that was really a surrender, Pond's Age Defying Cream, Listerine, Danon Yogurt's digitalis rectalitis for better digestion, plug-in surge protectors, fear of marijuana, smoke cigarettes to increase health, evil Arabs on mythical ‘sacred ground’ in Lower Manhattan, Gulf of Tonkin, diet soda, and even the new Daylight Savings Time. In every case, without exception, the myth was widely believed because so many entertain their emotions. Never learn how to think logically.

Most people are so uneducated as to believe what they are told to believe. Hype in Hitler's Rallies proved that Hitler was good for Germany. Gulf of Tonkin even 'proved' that 50,000 murdered American soldiers in Vietnam was good.

My father so loved advertising. Fun was to manipulate so many adults who still think like children. Who never achieve all levels of mental development.

In every case, facts found in comprehensive studies proved soundbytes were only brainwashing. Ie Pentagon Papers. But most only hear soundbytes. Cannot do what is necessary to be logical. So many even denied the Pentagon Papers due to their educational development.

Those educated in adolescent development and Epistemology understand that a child must achieve postskeptical rationalism to separate emotions (biases) from facts. Early adolescents achieve a mental ability called dogmatism or skepticism. This is when the adolescents learn facts have multiple interpretations. But then many adolescents only grasp one perspective; do ‘black and white’ thinking. Become either dogmatists or skeptics. We watch many who know what the Tea Party tells them to believe despite other more valid interpretations - dogmatists. Or knew the world was going to end earlier in the year. Others will even deny the Holocaust or Moon landing - skeptics. As noted by Rice in his book, "many people never outgrow this stage of reasoning." More than we want to believe.

Postskeptical rationalization is when absolute certainty, based in emotions, is replaced by learning how to discern hard facts. Research suggests that this mental ability starts with juniors in high school. Others do not begin this thinking process until well into college years. And again, many adults never achieve this ability at all. Many remain dogmatists or skeptics. Never get beyond mental abilities that usually emerge in early teenage years. Are easily manipulated by people such as my father because they never learn how to think. Those are the people who make advertising so much fun.

Does not matter how many years one spends in post graduate studies. An ability to separate hard facts from feelings is never achieved by many who cannot even see the difference between subjective and quantitative thinking.

For example, does power cycling an incandescent bulb cause premature bulb failure? Any layman who does not achieve the fourth level of mental development might quickly assume power cycling causes light bulb failure. Cannot separate a dogmatic conclusion, based only in observation, from logical thought.

Amanda Knox was railroaded by the uneducated. Supposedly, DNA on a knife that proved her guilt was only rye bread. This prosecutor is so dumb as to be awaiting jail time for his actions as a lawyer. Post graduate education does not mean he was educated. He entertained his biases rather then make conclusions from hard facts.

The problem is not just in Italy. In Norfolk VA, six sailors who did not even know one another were accused of gang raping and killing a woman. That conclusion proven by Virginal prosecutors because they railroaded a neighbor into accusing someone. Then used that accusation as reason to invent evidence. And to ignore other facts. Those uneducated lawyers truly believed their conclusions because and again, they never learned how to think logically. How to separate their emotions from facts. Same types also entertained emotions to believe Saddam had WMDs when facts and numbers all said otherwise.

The story of six sailor railroaded by Prosecutors is no different than what happened to Amanda Knox. Six Navy sailors were prosecuted for rape and murder that they could not possibly have done. Facts ignored by the most emotional made that fact obvious. PBS's Frontline (the same news service that made Saddam's WMD myths so obvious in four programs) exposed that railroading in The Confessions.

Yes, I said six. Two of the accused were so obviously innocent that even prosecutors were forced to drop charges. But not until after arresting those two by ignoring hard facts.

Americans who did the same uneducated reasoning also wasted almost 5000 American soldiers in Iraq - for the greater glory of their penis or other sex organs. The source of most thinking when one is so uneducated as to not separate emotions from facts. So many of us never achieve the fourth level of epistemological development - postskeptical rationalism.

A long list of scams exist due to so many uneducated adults. In every topmost example, even facts provided by the manufacturer say the product does not do what most people believe. And still, so many will buy Airborne as a cure to the common cold when the scam is that obvious. Defined as uneducated because some never achieve a fourth level of mental development. Cannot separate their biases from hard facts. Use subjective reasoning (also called junk science) to justify their irrational conclusions.

All are strongly encouraged to view the Frontline piece entitled The Confessions. It also explains why American are now surrendering their jobs to pay for $1 trillion wasted in Mission Accomplished. Many even deny why so many Americans are now suffering reduced living standards. Making them no different from prosecutors in Italy. Explained by epistemology.