"When you're the most powerful entity in the world, as the US government certainly is—the only government to have dropped nuclear bombs on civilian populations —you get to manufacture your own parallel universe with its unique rules of evidence and standards of proof. What's more, as the mightiest rule-maker, you can coerce other earthlings into 'sharing' your alternate reality. Or else."
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