Maybe Honesty is the Best Policy?

When she had finished, ending with a request that they not tell anyone else, Burke turned to Paula. "Was all of that correct, so far as your knowledge goes?" he asked her.

"Yes. The bits where I was present happened exactly as she said."

"Hmm," Burke said. Stacy and Paula waited nervously to see what he was going to say.

1. "Then I regret to say, Dr Bruder, that you seem to be just as crazy as she is."
2. "Then I have to believe it. You aren't just anyone, after all, but the top person in your field." "I believe it too," Eileen said.
3. "Then I have to believe it." "But I don't," Eileen said. "Science is all very well, but give me common sense any day."

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