"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message

Witnesses are a terribly unreliable source of information. Many of the
quotes that made it into the newspapers for a local mid-air were in
complete disagreement ...

In that case, then, we should have disbelieved the attacks of 9/11 until the
NTSB investigation reports came out. I mean...how did we even know the
planes crashed at all until the government investigators told us it was
acceptable to think such a thing?

At some point you have to start trusting witnesses in terms of EVIDENCE, at
least, if not as fact.
-c