Academics give a scholarly stamp to 9/11 Truth
John Gravois | 21.06.2006 06:37 | Analysis
How dare scientists actually notice inconsistencies in the Official Theory, which just happened to have provided the "historic opportunity" the criminals gathered in DC were waiting for, in order to consolidate their power, and launch a Perpetual War they've desired for years!
Professors of Paranoia?
Academics give a scholarly stamp to 9/11 conspiracy theories
By JOHN GRAVOIS
Chicago
Nearly five years have gone by since it happened. The trial of Zacarias Moussaoui is over. Construction of the Freedom Tower just began. Oliver Stone's movie about the attacks is due out in theaters soon. And colleges are offering degrees in homeland-security management. The post-9/11 era is barreling along.
And yet a whole subculture is still stuck at that first morning. They are playing and replaying the footage of the disaster, looking for clues that it was an "inside job." They feel sure the post-9/11 era is built on a lie.
(That's because the LIARS in DC haven't made a compelling case for the Conspiracy Theory upon which they've launched a long-planned agenda of Military Aggression.)
In recent months, interest in September 11-conspiracy theories has surged. Since January, traffic to the major conspiracy Web sites has increased steadily. The number of blogs that mention "9/11" and "conspiracy" each day has climbed from a handful to over a hundred.
Why now?
(Probably because we're approaching the six year anniversary, and the Bush/PNAC Regime hasn't made their case, and in that time, have completely destroyed any credibility they may have once had, by LYING the American People into an illegal war.)
Oddly enough, the answer lies with a soft-spoken physicist from Brigham Young University named Steven E. Jones, a devout Mormon and, until recently, a faithful supporter of George W. Bush.
Last November Mr. Jones posted a paper online advancing the hypothesis that the airplanes Americans saw crashing into the twin towers were not sufficient to cause their collapse, and that the towers had to have been brought down in a controlled demolition. Now he is the best hope of a movement that seeks to convince the rest of America that elements of the government are guilty of mass murder on their own soil.
His paper — written by an actual professor who works at an actual research university — has made him a celebrity in the conspiracy universe. He is now co-chairman of a group called the Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which includes about 50 professors — more in the humanities than in the sciences — from institutions like Clemson University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin.
But even as Mr. Jones's title and academic credentials give hope to the conspiracy theorists, his role in the movement may undermine those same credentials. What happens when science tries to function in a fringe crusade?
(Funny, a real Journalist would not ask such a dishonest question ...)
http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i42/42a01001.htm
Imagine if the media wrote so scathingly about the LIARS and War Criminals in the White House, who still, after nearly five years, have not produced a compelling piece of independently-verifiable evidence to support their own Conspiracy Theory ...
Academics give a scholarly stamp to 9/11 conspiracy theories
By JOHN GRAVOIS
Chicago
Nearly five years have gone by since it happened. The trial of Zacarias Moussaoui is over. Construction of the Freedom Tower just began. Oliver Stone's movie about the attacks is due out in theaters soon. And colleges are offering degrees in homeland-security management. The post-9/11 era is barreling along.
And yet a whole subculture is still stuck at that first morning. They are playing and replaying the footage of the disaster, looking for clues that it was an "inside job." They feel sure the post-9/11 era is built on a lie.
(That's because the LIARS in DC haven't made a compelling case for the Conspiracy Theory upon which they've launched a long-planned agenda of Military Aggression.)
In recent months, interest in September 11-conspiracy theories has surged. Since January, traffic to the major conspiracy Web sites has increased steadily. The number of blogs that mention "9/11" and "conspiracy" each day has climbed from a handful to over a hundred.
Why now?
(Probably because we're approaching the six year anniversary, and the Bush/PNAC Regime hasn't made their case, and in that time, have completely destroyed any credibility they may have once had, by LYING the American People into an illegal war.)
Oddly enough, the answer lies with a soft-spoken physicist from Brigham Young University named Steven E. Jones, a devout Mormon and, until recently, a faithful supporter of George W. Bush.
Last November Mr. Jones posted a paper online advancing the hypothesis that the airplanes Americans saw crashing into the twin towers were not sufficient to cause their collapse, and that the towers had to have been brought down in a controlled demolition. Now he is the best hope of a movement that seeks to convince the rest of America that elements of the government are guilty of mass murder on their own soil.
His paper — written by an actual professor who works at an actual research university — has made him a celebrity in the conspiracy universe. He is now co-chairman of a group called the Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which includes about 50 professors — more in the humanities than in the sciences — from institutions like Clemson University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin.
But even as Mr. Jones's title and academic credentials give hope to the conspiracy theorists, his role in the movement may undermine those same credentials. What happens when science tries to function in a fringe crusade?
(Funny, a real Journalist would not ask such a dishonest question ...)
http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i42/42a01001.htm Imagine if the media wrote so scathingly about the LIARS and War Criminals in the White House, who still, after nearly five years, have not produced a compelling piece of independently-verifiable evidence to support their own Conspiracy Theory ...
John Gravois
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It depends whose side you're on
21.06.2006 20:23
"One of the most common intuitive problems people have with conspiracy theories is that they require positing such complicated webs of secret actions. If the twin towers fell in a carefully orchestrated demolition shortly after being hit by planes, who set the charges? Who did the planning? And how could hundreds, if not thousands of people complicit in the murder of their own countrymen keep quiet?"
It then goes on to say that the mainstream has dismissed the arguments as not worthy of comment. This is a way of avoiding the question. But lets look at it from the other side, so to speak; why should we believe them instead ? So if you start off by asking the question - why should i want to believe the conspiracy theory, perhaps the answer is that from all other accounts this is exactly the sort of thing that we would expect the Bush administration to do. They are by all accounts an unsavoury lot who we would not recommend to our aunties.
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Consider The Holes, and 'Qui Bono?'
22.06.2006 06:43
Actually, I believe their observable, criminal, deceitful, and psychopathic (www.hare.com) activities over the past five years, coupled with their complete lack of compelling, independently-verifiable evidence - things that would exist, and be forthcoming, like airport surveillance pictures of "ze terrorists" boarding the planes - to support the Conspiracy Theory upon which they've launched a pre-planned program of military aggression and neo-Fascism, pretty much damns the Bush/PNAC Regime.
911 = PNAC, CIA, Mossad
Morov
22.06.2006 19:51
The same
Yawn ...
23.06.2006 23:15
Disinfo and Ad Hominem attacks are usually a sign of Intellectual Emptiness.
911 = PNAC, CIA, Mossad
The Same
24.06.2006 08:40
That would suggest something to a sane mind, and it wouldn't be that Bush's influence has bought silence from every expert on the planet or that only a handful of unqualified dabblers has been able to make extrapolations from avi's, jpgs and rumours which the expert comunity missed.
Get a life saddos!
Morov
Not All, No
25.06.2006 05:30
Disinfo and Ad Hominem attacks are usually a sign of Intellectual Emptiness.
911 = PNAC, CIA, Mossad