Bar Cochba via A C Doyle, et al

when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

A C Doyle

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

Carl Sagan