and then there’s the Rule of Five

Just found again, by chance, something that crossed my mind the other day. The author of The Bible Code responded thus in 1997 to the obvious criticism that you can find anything if you massage random data enough: “When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I’ll believe them.” So, for those who haven’t seen it already, or misplaced the bookmark: Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick.