Posted on 08/06/2006 5:18:55 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
(AP) -- Kevin Barrett believes the U.S. government might have destroyed the World Trade Center. Steven Jones is researching what he calls evidence that the twin towers were brought down by explosives detonated inside them, not by hijacked airliners.
These men aren't uneducated junk scientists: Barrett will teach a class on Islam at the University of Wisconsin this fall, over the protests of more than 60 state legislators. Jones is a tenured physicist at Brigham Young University whose mainstream academic job has made him a hero to conspiracy theorists.
Five years after the terrorist attacks, a community that believes widely discredited ideas about what happened on September 11, 2001, persists and even thrives. Members trade their ideas on the Internet and in self-published papers and in books. About 500 of them attended a recent conference in Chicago, Illinois.
The movement claims to be drawing fresh energy and credibility from a recently formed group called Scholars for 9/11 Truth.
The organization says publicity over Barrett's case has helped boost membership to about 75 academics. They are a tiny minority of the 1 million part- and full-time faculty nationwide, and some have no university affiliation. Most aren't experts in relevant fields.
But some are well educated, with degrees from elite universities such as Princeton and Stanford and jobs at schools including Rice, Indiana and the University of Texas.
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So, that's where Bachdad Bob went!
" Barrett will teach a class on Islam "
Hmmm might these beliefs have something to do with his theory??
Barrett and Jones definitely prove that somebody is beaming "secret rays" into their heads.
After visiting their conspiracy-oriented website a while back, I spoke to an architect that I know and respect. He explained how the many floors of a building can all fail within fractions of one another so that there is no so-called delayed pancaking effect -- the whole building is essentially in free fall.
Figures he's in the peoples republic of Madison.
Barrett will teach a class on Islam at the University of Wisconsin
That disqualifies him for any serious discussion on any topic.
Oh, that makes it credible then..
I am sure a guy that teaches Islam is unbiased.
The USS Cole, the American Embassies in Africa, and the marine barracks.
some are well educated, with degrees from elite universities such as Princeton and Stanford and jobs at schools including Rice, Indiana and the University of Texas.
Some people can go to college and still be idiots,
some can TEACH college and still be idiots.
fractions of a second
Do they not even realize or care how much they energize the enemy? What happened to sedition and treason laws in this nation?
Where was Dubya when The Great Ronald Reagan was shot? Answer me that..eh? Eh?
"Barrett will teach a class on Islam at the University of Wisconsin"
And this qualifies him on subjects like engineering, architecture, and demolition?
You can't fix stupid. I'm just happy to know that their tax dollars are supporting the things they stand against.
All I can say is....Cue the Twilight Zone music :)
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