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Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigour and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility. Nikola Tesla
Eight hours a day for thirty-six days a special senate sub-committee held televised hearings known as the Army-McCarthy hearings in the spring of 1964. Emile de Antonio, Point of Order, 1964
‘The thing the American people can do is to be vigilant day and night to make sure they don’t have communists teaching the sons and daughters of America. ibid. McCarthy
Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. Jean-Yves Leloup, Compassion and Meditation
This investigation is perplexing; it defies logic. Star Trek: Voyager: Repression s7e4, Tuvok to Harry
Open discussion of many major public questions has for some now been taboo. We can’t open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated. Saul Bellow
If way to a better there be, it extracts a full look at the worst. Thomas Hardy, In Tenebris II
The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the President. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job. Richard Nixon
Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on September 11th. He’s a liar. He’s an apologist for corrupt regimes. Timothy Noah
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any man who is afraid to have his doctrine investigated is not only a coward but a hypocrite. Robert G Ingersoll
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. Marcus Aurelius
All I’m asking you to do is to delay the inquiry until we get back from Blackpool. Edge of Darkness I II III IV V VI, Trade Union official to Ron, BBC 1985
The whole world’s falling round your ears and you don’t even care. ibid. Emma daughter to Ron in jam-jar
That was Whitehall showing an interest. ibid. chief constable
Did Emma have a boyfriend? He’s a political agitator apparently. ibid. rozzer to Ron
The nuclear deterrent is there to deter all war and it has. ibid. Thatcher on TV
We’re attached to the prime minister’s office … Your daughter: she was some sort of terrorist, wasn’t she? According to her file … Were they after her or were they after you? ibid. Pendleton in jam-jar
We found the car. Got Lowe’s prints all over it … You put him away ten years ago, remember? ibid. rozzer to Ron
How deeply was she involved in GIAI? ibid. Ron to Emma’s boyfriend
Did you know that six of them broke into the nuclear waste plant at Northmoor eight weeks ago and they were led by your daughter? … Her body was subject to massive doses of radiation. ibid. Harcourt
Suspicion pointed to a secret plutonium source hidden in Northmoor Nuclear Waste Plant … ibid. secret report
You’re daughter was a terrorist, Craven. You may as well get used to it. ibid. Darius
I’ve been waiting for you. ibid. Ron to gunman
We’re closing the case, Ronnie. ibid. rozzer
Nobody dances like the British. They deserve the Falklands. ibid. Darius
You know damn well who they are, Ronnie. ibid. union bloke
Why was plutonium being stored in Northmoor? Who were these terrorists? And why, why were the AEA not notified of this incident? ibid. energy subcommittee
Get me Pendleton! ibid. Ron
They found the hot cell. It had been sealed off. ibid. Pendleton
This future nuclear state will be an absolute state. ibid. Darius’ lecture
Get it while it’s hot! ibid. Darius on stage with Plutonium
They didn’t just betray you, they made a fool of you. ibid. Ron to Darius
I am not on your side! ibid. Ron
We are a four-person investigative team … We keep our work confidential. Spotlight 2015 starring Mark Ruffalo & Michael Keaton & Rachel McAdams & Liev Schreiber & John Slattery & Brian d’Arcy James & Stanley Tucci & Gene Amoroso & James Sheridan & Billy Crudup & Richard Jenkins et al, director Tom McCarthy
Apparently, this priest molested kids at six different parishes over the last thirty years and the attorney for the victims … says Cardinal Law found out about it fifteen years ago and did nothing. ibid. Baron meets the staff
Twenty grand for molesting a child? ibid. Sacha
This guy was shuffled around from parish to parish … There’s a pattern. ibid. Rezendes
How do you say no to God, right? You see, it’s important to understand this is not only physical abuse, it’s spiritual abuse too. ibid.
This is not just Boston, it’s the whole country … I know thirteen [priests] here in Boston. ibid. victim
My estimate suggests 6% act out sexually with minors. 6% of all priests. ibid. researcher
87 priests in Boston. ibid. Rezendes
We’ve got two stories here: we’ve got a story about degenerate clergy and we’ve got a story about a bunch of lawyers turning child abuse into a cottage industry. ibid. Robinson
Show me this was systemic, that it came from the top down. ibid. Baron
Church allowed abuse by priest for years. ibid. newspaper headline
Over the course of 2002, the Spotlight team published close to 600 stories about the scandal. 249 priests and brothers were publicly accused of sexual abuse within the Boston Archdiocese. The number of survivors in Boston is estimated to be well over 1,000. In December 2002 Cardinal Law resigned from the Boston Archdiocese. He was reassigned to the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiori in Rome, one of the highest ranking Roman catholic churches in the world. ibid. captions
‘He [Jake Richard Hughes] was on an ATV and he hit a fence post.’ The Fifth Estate: Dead End: An Investigation Gone Wrong, CBC 2019
It’s been six and a half years since Jakes Hughes’ dramatic death after an ATV accident. What happened that day has become the subject of an investigation involving four police forces, a seemingly unending mystery. ibid.
The ATV headed into the woods; moments later, Taylor [driver?] came running out in a panic. ibid.
The Baltic Sea 28 September 1994: ‘The Estonia was no ordinary accident. It was a devastating disaster of unseen proportions that claimed many lives and left many casualties.’ Estonia I: The Disaster, Discovery Plus 2021, Lars Borgnas, journalist
‘The ferry disaster is the worst tragedy to hit the Nordics since World War II. 852 people lost their lives; 760 of them are still at the bottom of the sea.’ ibid. news
None of the cars were being tied down despite the high winds. ibid. driver
Just after midnight there were two extremely loud bangs. ibid. survivor
Yes, we have a problem. We’re listing badly 20 or 30 degrees. Could you come to our assistance? ibid. ship’s mayday
We were walking over the cabin windows. ibid.