WTF are you talking about? It's not a court, it's part of a hiring procedure. And what does freedom of speech have to do with trying to make sure an intelligence agency isn't hiring double agents?

The evidence of man's mass extinction is so vast and well-documented, that I'm going to go ahead and say you haven't done a lick of research. Saying there's no evidence for the Holocene Extinction is tantamount to saying we aren't changing the climate or evolution is not happening. You're either lying or illiterate. Or both.

I disagree. Only one of them is as dumb as the other.

What source of information is flawless and can be believed without question? Why do people exhibit good critical thinking skills when it comes to Wikipedia, but swallow wholesale what they get from Encyclopedia Britannica, CNN, Fox News, the Bible, etc?

Then it takes very dark pictures.

I guess you remembered your Charlemagne: "Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky..."

It was JUNE!

And I've never been groped. Guess I'm not attractive enough. :-(

How is excluding someone from a job based solely on gender not sexism?

No, but I'm sure it's terrible.

No, this is the sci-fi version:

It was a dark and stormy night; the lead sulfide rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of ammonium wind which swept up the streets (for it is on Omicron Theta 1 that our story lies). In other words, a typical day on the dark side of a tidally locked planet.

Apparently he used a shell company.

So, just like Robert A. Heinlein then?

Probably the latter. The selection bias here is huge. The really smart criminals aren't caught.

Not the complete picture. In Norway, soil is replaced very quickly so their farming technique of clearing trees and planting what they wanted worked fine. In Greenland, soil is replaced from volcanic activity, so extremely slowly. When they cleared the trees for planting, the soil washed away down to the rock. They overfarmed the limited soil, and quickly starved.