Paul Craig Roberts, In Court Cases Facts Are Losing Their Relevancy as They Have in News Reporting, Scholarship, and Science

Paul Craig Roberts [Editor’s note: The Sandy Hook lawsuits provide a perfect illustration, where none of them has been decided on the basis of its merits by being sent to a jury to determine the facts. They have been decided on the basis of assumption, presupposition, or (in the case of Alex Jones), alleged failures of discovery. My own came the closest, where Wisconsin allows judges to set aside evidence it considers to be “unreasonable”. Thus was a massive conflict in alleged facts resolved by simply “setting aside” all of…