https://deceit.blog/tag/evidence Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "evidence". en Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:10:05 GMT 60 https://deceit.blog/essay/ten-strongest-objections-answered https://deceit.blog/essay/ten-strongest-objections-answered Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. What this appendix is for The audit essay ends with a standing challenge: name the observation that would change the verdict, or concede the claim is unfalsifiable. This appendix is the other half of that challenge, the ten strongest objections to the audit, stated in the form their real defenders g… https://deceit.blog/essay/bible-cannot-tell-god-from-satan https://deceit.blog/essay/bible-cannot-tell-god-from-satan Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The instruction is inside the book. First Thessalonians 5:21: "test everything; hold fast to what is good." This essay takes the instruction at face value and applies it to the book that issued it. The question is not whether the Bible is inspired. The question is what remains of that claim after th… https://deceit.blog/essay/two-thousand-years-of-forgery https://deceit.blog/essay/two-thousand-years-of-forgery Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. In 1389 a bishop wrote to the pope about a cloth. Pierre d'Arcis had a burial shroud on display in his diocese at Lirey. Pilgrims were paying to see it. He told Clement VII that the cloth was a painting, that it had been "cunningly painted," and that the artist who made it had confessed. He named th… https://deceit.blog/essay/architecture-of-religious-fraud https://deceit.blog/essay/architecture-of-religious-fraud Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. Peter Popoff had an earpiece. His wife fed him names, addresses, and medical conditions from backstage. He called it divine revelation. James Randi intercepted the radio signal and played it on Johnny Carson's show. The audience gasped. Popoff filed for bankruptcy. Then he came back. He is still sel…