… us “unwashed” don’t have access to any “current information” that will help us to “make sense”, “understand” or have things “add up”. This is quite freeing if one thinks about it. By presenting good arguments using the information we have available [Good History} and skills such as the making of well-honed abductions that have to be countered we take up time and resources. Hence the doubling down on censorship and the convient “forgetting of history”.
As C.S. Peirce said, “Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.”
If “the way of inquiry is being blocked” you know you are over the target.
Is your inquiry being blocked? No info. forthcoming on Crooks, Routh, or Boelter.
Yep, inquiry is being blocked.