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Via Little Green Footballs. This video/computer simulation is exceptional The Pentagon Attack Simulation Maybe this video, one of the most amazing computer simulations I’ve ever seen, will finally convince the Truthers (aka, 9/11 conspiracy rubes) that American Airlines Flight 77 really did deliberately plunge into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, carrying 53 passengers, six crew members, and five Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia screaming “Allahu Akbar!” in the cockpit. Click here  It’s a clinical presentation, but absolutely horrifying if you allow yourself to imagine what the passengers experienced as the plane flew only feet off the ground, snapping lamp...

With Marines being accused of war crimes, the blogosphere is doing what it does best: scrutinizing the reporting. In this case, the site Sweetness & Light has been on Time magazine's case for what appears to be justifiable concerns over its reporting of the Nov. 19 Haditha incident, in which Marines are under investigation for killing two dozen innocent Iraqis. Time first broke the story on Haditha in March, four months after the incident -- a delay which too few of the Marines' more ardent accusers (such as Rep. John Murtha) failed to question. One of Time's key sources who...

my friend from college dsent me an email with the following : I need your help. A friend of mine from high school has been brain washed by left wing conspiracy theorists. He is basically using that time honored form of Manipulation called flooding to try and convince me That George Bush is responsible for 911. That is he is e-mailing me everyday, more and more asinine crap that there is not enough hours in the day to type down reasonable explanations. Could you take a look at this? I want to go through and disprove each point. If there...

“WHEN IDEOLOGY IS YOUR GUIDE, YOU ARE BOUND TO GET LOST.” This is how the author begins and underpins this book. Daniel Flynn believes ideology determines your reaction to issues, ideas and people. Once you have accepted an ideology even smart people may say and do stupid things. Of course in conservative circles demonizing intellectuals is a great tradition. Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals pilloried left wing intellectuals. The danger in pursuing such a strategy is that it may become simple pandering to anti-intellectual bias. Alternatively, arguing against ideology simply prepares an argument for the left. After all, Martin Luther made faith...

In response to my piece on election conspiracy theories, many readers have asked about supposed irregularities in Florida counties that use optical-scan voting machines. In Baker County, where 69 percent of registered voters identify as Democrats, 77 percent of voters went for Bush. Dixie County: 78 percent registered Democrats, 69 percent for Bush. Franklin County: 77 percent registered Dems, 59 percent for Bush. Holmes County: 73 percent registered Dems, 77 percent for Bush. (USTogether.org has more charts and graphs of this data here and here.)

Something to Yak About - Debate Prep For The People With only slightly less hype than your basic Super Bowl, Sen. John F. Kerry and President George W. Bush take to the stage tonight for the first of three presidential debates. But you can't tell the players or their positions without a program, so The Yak is happy to provide these fabulous briefing materials on key issues destined to percolate to the surface during the debate. Your listeners will find them helpful too. Debunking John Kerry In Real TimeIt's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it. We're talking...

Media Bias: When ex-diplomat Joseph Wilson said President Bush lied, it set off a media stampede. When he turned out to be wrong, the hoofbeats fell silent. In fact, as the chart below shows, that might be an understatement. The coverage is so one-sided that you might think something was at work here — something like, say, extreme media bias.For a recap, the CIA sent Wilson to Niger to look into charges that Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein sought nuclear materials from Africa. Wilson reported that, no, Saddam hadn't; it was all a fraud. For some, that was enough to debunk...

Come let us create a compendium of the best resources for debunking Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11." Let's work smart. I'll also post on http://wwww.unspun.info.

DNA tests debunk blond Inuit legend Last Updated Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:36:10 CAMBRIDGE BAY, NUNAVUT - Two Icelandic scientists have shot holes in the theory of the missing Norse tribes of the Arctic. Agnar Helgason and Gisli Palsson say their DNA tests have failed to find any evidence that Europeans mingled genetically with Inuit half a millennium ago. Agnar Helgason The scientists made the statement after a visit to Cambridge Bay last week. Rumours of blue-eyed, blond-haired Inuit have circulated through the Arctic since the turn of the century. They were thought to possibly descend from a group of...

<p>LONDON- Scientists have once and for all debunked astrology's central claim that our human characteristics are molded by the influence of the sun, moon and planets at the time of our birth in the most thorough scientific study ever conducted on the subject.</p>

Hi all, I was debunking another poll, and thought I would post what I consider to be a total Integrity Gap by the BBC, and a Polling company called IPSOS-Reid. I have contacted them as well, and will see if I get a response. The BBC posted poll results under: "Poll suggests world hostile to US" But the BBC hired IPSOS-Reid to poll the data in The United States of America, as listed here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/programmes/wtwta/poll/html/default.stm In that poll, they stated President Bush Favourable ratings as only 43%. But if you go to another IPSOS-Reid site it states President Bush Approval...

to anyone who wish's an open forum to defend their views i invite you to www.nutz.org. i am not the owner of this website only a member seeking further diversity in our pool of users. nutz.org is a collective of differing views on politics both domestically and internationally, mixed with humor and community. want to tell a liberal off? we got plenty of them just waiting for you... need to find fellow conservatives with your point of view? we got those too. if your tired of preaching to the choir why dont you visit the politics and religion forum and...

  What's New? Bad Astronomy Misconceptions Movies Briefs News TV Bitesize Astronomy Solar System The Pantry Die F.A.Z. Mad Science Book Store Bulletin Board Site Info Search the site Who am I? Contact me Calendar/Events Links Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax(February 13, 2001) On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. The program was an hour long, and featured interviews with a series of people who believe that NASA faked the Apollo Moon landings...