It's a good rewording of Occam's razor: the explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is best. You could believe that a cabal capable of eliminating any

It's a good rewording of Occam's razor: the explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is best. You could believe that a cabal capable of eliminating any trace of itself in a world where Wikileaks and whistleblowing is becoming a more frequent occurrence. Or, you could invoke the simpler explanation that if there is no concrete/verifiable/reproducable evidence of it, it just doesn't exist. I'm just going to assume it doesn't exist === I'm going to assume it wasn't aliens.