Category: 9/11 Conspiracies
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Conspiracy belief prevalence, according to Public Policy Polling is as high as 51%
And it may even be more when one considers that there is likely non-overlap between many of these conspiracies. It really is unfortunate that their isn’t more social pushback against those that express conspiratorial views. Given both the historical and modern tendency of some conspiracy theories being used direct hate towards one group or another…
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Skeptics’ Circle 102 at Happy Jihad’s House of Pancakes
Please check out this week’s skeptics’ circle at Happy Jihad’s House of Pancakes. Of note, I liked Dr Austs’ post on the human toll of HIV/AIDS denialism, it is stirring. I also found the Skeptic’s field guide particularly interesting. I would have two suggestions. One would be to prioritize by frequency of use or rhetorical…
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Al Qaeda is apparently irritated by 9/11 conspiracy cranks too
Here’s one of the more amusing news stories I’ve seen. Apparently Al Qaeda is irritated with Ahmadinejad’s 9/11 conspiracy theories. It turns out the people who committed the atrocity are quite proud of it, and don’t want people to forget it. Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader issued a new audiotape Tuesday accusing Shiite Iran of spreading…
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The latest example of crank magnetism – Ahmadinejad becomes a Troofer!
Yes, that’s right, the Holocaust denier who brought us the international meeting of Holocaust deniers has slipped naturally into trooferism. Earlier Wednesday, Ahmadinejad called the 9/11 attacks a “suspect event” in a speech at a public rally in the holy city of Qom. “Four or five years ago a suspect event took place in New…
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How not to be taken seriously
I think I’m going to have to add a new behavior to the crank HOWTO based on the latest campaign by troofers to get attention by disruption. First it was Bill Maher: Who I think handled it right. Now Bill Clin-ton.Bill also does a pretty good job with the kooks. But it has me thinking…
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Quote Mining from the 9/11 Loons – NIST needs to learn to anticipate this crap
Pat at Screw loose change brings us the latest dishonesty (or carefully reinforced self-delusion) from the 9/11 troofers. The National Institute of Standards and Technology released this letter (PDF) in response to the troofers, but failed to realize that the troofers will stoop to pretty pathetic lows to misrepresent what they say. I’ll present this…
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9/11 cranks sure are paranoid – of each other
One of the latest discussions going on at the 9/11 conspiracy sites is the big question of who are the 9/11 disinformation agents being paid by the government to spread lies and confusion about the events of 9/11. George Washington gives the simple 5 d’s of disinformation to help you figure out who the splitters…
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Skeptics’ Circle Number 69 – Unscrewing the Inscrutable
At Unscrewing the Inscrutable Brent Rasmussen brings us the 69th skeptics circle with a fun, old west feel. One of the first entries was particularly interesting to me as an example of crank magnetism. The Socratic Gadfly found Lynn Marguilis embracing 9/11 conspiracies, which shouldn’t be surprising given her HIV/AIDS denial – also requiring a…
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What the hell happened to Fisk’s brain?
Sounds like Fisk had a stroke and started buying into Troofer nonsense this week. I’ll get right to the relevant passage and in honor of Mr. Fisk I think we’ll Fisk it.
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If you’re going to pull the Galileo Gambit – try to remember who Galileo was
From the “my god these people are dumb files” is this clip from last night’s History Channel documentary 9/11 conspiracies. Ha! Good stuff. Don’t worry, they’re replaying it Saturday night in case you missed it, but it apparently has the troofers up in arms. In more 9/11 troof news, Popular mechanics has an update to…