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9/11: Debunking The Myths (March 2005)
Popular Mechanics ^ | March 2005

Posted on 07/12/2006 2:09:00 PM PDT by Jean S

Edited on 07/12/2006 2:14:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

PM examines the evidence and consults the experts to refute the most persistent conspiracy theories of September 11.



FALSE WITNESS: Conspiracy theorists claim this photo "proves" the 9/11 attacks were a U.S. military operation. PHOTOGRAPH BY ROB HOWARD
 

For background on this investigative feature, please click here.

FROM THE MOMENT the first airplane crashed into the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, the world has asked one simple and compelling question: How could it happen?

Three and a half years later, not everyone is convinced we know the truth. Go to Google.com, type in the search phrase "World Trade Center conspiracy" and you'll get links to an estimated 628,000 Web sites. More than 3000 books on 9/11 have been published; many of them reject the official consensus that hijackers associated with Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda flew passenger planes into U.S. landmarks.

Healthy skepticism, it seems, has curdled into paranoia. Wild conspiracy tales are peddled daily on the Internet, talk radio and in other media. Blurry photos, quotes taken out of context and sketchy eyewitness accounts have inspired a slew of elaborate theories: The Pentagon was struck by a missile; the World Trade Center was razed by demolition-style bombs; Flight 93 was shot down by a mysterious white jet. As outlandish as these claims may sound, they are increasingly accepted abroad and among extremists here in the United States.

To investigate 16 of the most prevalent claims made by conspiracy theorists, POPULAR MECHANICS assembled a team of nine researchers and reporters who, together with PM editors, consulted more than 70 professionals in fields that form the core content of this magazine, including aviation, engineering and the military.

In the end, we were able to debunk each of these assertions with hard evidence and a healthy dose of common sense. We learned that a few theories are based on something as innocent as a reporting error on that chaotic day. Others are the byproducts of cynical imaginations that aim to inject suspicion and animosity into public debate. Only by confronting such poisonous claims with irrefutable facts can we understand what really happened on a day that is forever seared into world history.--THE EDITORS

(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 911; 911conspiracy; 911truther; kevinbarrett; libertarians; ronpaul
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1 posted on 07/12/2006 2:09:03 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: JeanS

Obviously Popular Mechanics is a tool of the Bush-Cheney-Illuminati-Skull&Bones-CFR-Bilderberger conspiracy


2 posted on 07/12/2006 2:11:59 PM PDT by The Lumster (USA - where the innocent have nothing to fear!)
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To: All

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3 posted on 07/12/2006 2:16:54 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: JeanS; Admin Moderator
I just asked Admin to create a special search for this kind of information. The moonbat conspiracy theorist I hear on Medved, Prager, Hannity, etc. are just nutty.
4 posted on 07/12/2006 2:17:42 PM PDT by MarkeyD (The patriotism of the New York Times = The humanity of an Islamic terrorist.)
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To: Cindy

bttt


5 posted on 07/12/2006 2:19:28 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Ping.


6 posted on 07/12/2006 2:22:21 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: MarkeyD

It's like that moonbat on the DU with his cement blocks, chicken wire and kerosene. That's sooooo funny.


7 posted on 07/12/2006 2:30:10 PM PDT by Jaded (does it really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: JeanS
The only one of these conspiracies that could be remotely possible is shooting down flight 93. Which if true is perfectly acceptable for what was taking place that day.

i don't understand these conspiracies about 911. They seem simplistically stupid.

8 posted on 07/12/2006 2:32:24 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* “I love you guys”)
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To: MarkeyD

You mean that Keven barrett nutjob.


9 posted on 07/12/2006 2:41:53 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: JeanS

The moonbats at DU are deeply saddened that Popular Mechanics has been co-opted by the bushco


10 posted on 07/12/2006 2:53:16 PM PDT by Talking_Mouse (Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: JeanS

Thanks for setting this up to spread the word. :) DH & I faithfully read PopSci & PopMech each month. We love 'em.


11 posted on 07/12/2006 2:56:50 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: JeanS

In all the four thousand times this article has been posted I have never been able to see the evidence in the photo of the plane about to crash into the tower. I guess you have to want to see something.


12 posted on 07/12/2006 3:04:00 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: satchmodog9
Indeed, they want to see something that doesn't exsist.
I reposted this because the wacko conspiricists are at it again. We have one teaching this at UW, Kevin Barrett.
13 posted on 07/12/2006 3:07:02 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: JeanS

Yep. I have family in Madison. They are more moderate republicans and they are outraged by this tool teaching at UW. The left is running out the conspiracies again to shore up the base again. All else has failed.


14 posted on 07/12/2006 3:11:14 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

islam is to blame for September 11th. We need another crusade...


15 posted on 07/12/2006 3:34:32 PM PDT by chadwimc
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To: Steve Van Doorn

That didn't even happen. Fighters were still some minutes away when the United 93 crashed. Obvioulsy, the passengers had regained control of the cockpit, but whoever took over in the controls either did not have the skill to fly it, or the momentum of the dive made a crash inevitable.


16 posted on 07/12/2006 3:37:09 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (evolution has both deified and degraded humanity)
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To: JeanS
According to the whackjobs, the holograph machine is working correctly in this photo but the hologram malfunctions and loses a wing before it hits the tower. No I am not kidding, this is one of their theories.


17 posted on 07/12/2006 3:40:59 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: attiladhun2
"controls either did not have the skill to fly it, or the momentum of the dive made a crash inevitable."


About 6 months ago there was a post on FR showing that the plane was inverted (Up side down) and heading down very close to the ground when they got the controls. you would have to be the best top notch pilot to get out of that one.

18 posted on 07/12/2006 4:46:51 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* “I love you guys”)
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To: The Lumster

Bump for later


19 posted on 07/12/2006 9:37:51 PM PDT by Richard from IL
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To: The Lumster
Bush-Cheney-Illuminati-Skull&Bones-CFR-Bilderberger conspiracy



Bilderberger Conspiracy HQ Building

If anyone would know for certain that the whole thing was a conspiracy, it would have to be Tourist Guy -- he has been so consistent when speaking of 9/11:


He's on top of the WTC, and a plane
seems to be aimed right at him.

Now we see TG a few minutes later, still intact.


TG, being Jewish, knew just when to call
Dick Cheney to steer the planes away

Want more proof? Go to the ultimate source! The man that speaks wife's money to power:


Case closed! And the famous CIA cap is in the photo, too!

20 posted on 07/13/2006 4:16:57 AM PDT by Watery Tart (PLEASE! Send me a link to pic of Hitlery sporting the headline, "BUSH KNEW." Has she purged it?)
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