Ah!!!! Well, well! So here we have it! The whole reason that Organ is making the sleazy, absurd claim that Dr. Mantik is a quack is that Organ cannot accept the hard scientific evidence that Dr. Mantik has discovered that shows that the JFK autopsy x-rays have been altered. He can't or won't consider the hard scientific evidence on its own merits, even though Dr. Michael Chesser has confirmed it with his own multiple OD measurements on a JFK pre-mortem skull x-ray and on the autopsy skull x-rays.
Right. The "hard scientific evidence" is hardly that. No doubt Mantik is obtaining honest OD readings, not the issue. Speer questions his use of enhanced x-ray
prints and how such readings would compare to original x-rays taken on a machine similar to that at Bethesda, and how such an older machine would show features on a similarly-damaged skull. Not asking for the moon, just normal scientific protocol.
The hospital had a better-quality x-ray machine on another floor, but the portable one was faster to use and showed metal fragments, which they doctors were most interested in. We can see quality differences, for example, in the 8mm film and camera used by Zapruder as compared to that used by Nix.
"I would like to explain one thing. These films, these x-rays were taken
solely for the purpose of finding what at that time was thought to be a
bullet that had entered the body and had not exited. If we were looking
for fine bone detail, the type of diagnostic exquisite detail we want in life,
we could have taken the x-rays in the x-ray department, made the films
there, but we felt that the portable x ray equipment was adequate for the
purpose; i.e., locating a metallic fragment."
-- Dr. John Ebersole, the autopsy radiologist to the HSCA
Rather than allow the evidence to determine his conclusions, Organ judges all evidence solely on the basis of whether or not it supports his conclusions, and if it does not, he reaches, grasps, and strains to come up with any excuse, no matter how silly or irrelevant, to reject that evidence.
Fitting things to a predetermined conclusion is what you do at your website. What Speer is asking of Mantik doesn't seem "silly or irrelevant".
(We see this in Organ's strange attack on renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson for expressing certain political views that Organ views as extreme, even though tens of millions of Americans find those views perfectly valid. Needless to say, Dr. Carson's political views have nothing to do with Dr. Mantik's OD measurements and high-magnification analysis of the autopsy skull x-rays.)
Which of these had the most appeal to you: Joseph created the pyramids to store grain, that poverty is "a state of mind" and that the My-Pillow Guy has medical cures? Horne, Mantik and you believe FDR allowed Pearl Harbor to happen.
You offer this quote from Mantik's "JFK Assassination Paradoxes": "A large white area (especially obvious in prints). ..." At least Mantik admits he's using compromised x-ray
prints that increasingly exhibit higher degrees of artificial contrast. I pointed this out earlier.
The original x-ray showed a fairly- even range of whiteness. | The HSCA enhancement unintentionally added some artificial contrast. |
You can see (the "White Patch" inset, above) how much more artificial contrast Mantik gets from using prints of the x-ray.
And why is no such white patch seen on JFK's 1960 skull x-ray?
Why is there no glowing "white patch" on JFK's original unenhanced autopsy x-ray?
Where are Mantik's OD measurements for that?
Answer: The impossible white patch does not show up on the 1960 JFK skull x-ray and on the AP autopsy skull x-ray because it was added to the lateral autopsy skull x-ray after the autopsy. Dr. Mantik has even been able to duplicate how it was added.
You're the gift that keeps on giving. Here's Mantik's "duplication".
There is a hinged bone flap that was modeled for the 2013 NOVA program "Cold Case JFK":
If the flap didn't re-seat fully but partly overlapped the intact bone, it would explain the bright V-shape in the center of the autopsy x-ray.
So again, Griffith's still not taking Mantik's "historic developments" and "monumental" disclosures to mainstream media (surely Fox would oblige him) or his Congressman. If anyone vets their claims, they're dumb, have a bias or are part of the cover-up.