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Wouldn't it be wonderful to master techniques that can lead to breakthroughs in your research?  No doubt you already have your own arsenal of qualitative methods, but we all can benefit from learning more.  For your consideration, here are four approaches to the various techniques used to arrive at the findings in the articles and books on this Website:

As is spelled out in "Was Abderraouf Jdey the Anthrax Mailer?", the real Anthrax Mailer was not dedicated, patriotic, psychologically vulnerable U.S. Government scientist Bruce Ivins, as FBI so unpersuasively claims.  Much more likely than not, the Mailer was in fact Abderraouf Jdey, a known al Qaeda operative based in Montreal who had been detained, then released, in the summer of 2001.

The significant presence of water on Earth has long stood out as an anomaly in the formation of the solar system.  As a light molecule, water was generally pushed by solar wind out beyond the "snow line" around 4.5 AU (Astronomical Unit--the distance of Earth to the Sun) where it can be found in abundance in the ice giants Uranus and Neptune as well as in moons and comets. 

The famous Snake Goddess of ancient Crete has long attracted students of history and art. Elegant, risquée, enigmatic, she embodies the mystery and allure of Minoan civilization.

Immanuel Velikovsky argued famously, based on his interpretation of ancient sources, that Venus had emerged from Jupiter as a comet, interacted with the Earth and Mars in the second and first millennia B.C., and then finally settled into a nearly circular orbit of the Sun.

Here are three new lines of reasoning that tend to support this theory: