9/11 conspiracy theorists energized

CNN.com ^ | 7 August 2006

[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.

[MikefromOhio]

check this out **Warning Strong language**

[mtbopfuyn]

I sure hope someone it taking names of those who are spending their parents' hard earned dollars to register for that class.

[Darkwolf377]

In all seriousness, you're behind the times.

The Popular Mechanics articles caused a brief Moonbat depression until they realized that the writer of the article (or is it the publisher of the magaizne? can't recall offhand) is Michael Chertoff's cousin.

Do a Google search and you'll find this whole article dismissed with such headlines as "Popular Mechanics' Deceptive Smear Against 9/11 Truth".

No self-respecting Moonbat believes a word of it.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Bears repeating, again and again and again and again...

[Doctor Raoul]

If you know the secret IP address, you can connect to the chip Bush had implanted into their heads and you can read their thoughts.....ewwww.....Alex Jones, you'd do THAT with your own mother? You sick bastard.

[Non-Sequitur]

bump

[mysterio]

I post on a couple sites where they are sure that Bush orchestrated the whole thing. I find it's really funny to make up four page long conspiracy theories and photoshop outrageous pictures to mock them incessently. They really hate that. You can't argue with them, because facts play no part in their theories. But they understand when they are being made fun of.

[Longbow1969]

When I was abducted by aliens...both times...I could swear I saw Bush in the motherwheel with the bad things. The doctors at the nervous house said that I might have imagined it...but I know what I saw. I'm thinking about incorporating these facts in the next publicly funded university class I teach....well...when the people in white coats let me out anyway.

[fso301]

Nuttiest of the Moonbats!!!

Yeah but he'll be a shoe-in for Secretary of education in a hillary clinton administration.

[Darkwolf377]

Look at how easily the Dems gott behind Fahrenheit 911.

This will be an issue in 2008 if the Dems are desperate enough.

If the Dems win in November 2006, they will have hearing after hearing after hearing, ramming doubts into the skulls of the American people.

Just ask yourself, Is there anything the Dems WON'T do to get back in power? Questioning if Bush caused 9-11 is NOTHING to them. Nothing.

Think about that, the "send a message" crowd.

[xcamel]

All dumber than a bag of "lawn sausages"

[mtbopfuyn]

But some are well educated, with degrees from... University of Texas.

Oh yeah, those tea sippers. Austin - second only to California for hippies per capita, a sanctuary city and a big blue spot that ruins the Lone Star State during elections. Probably that wacko UT Prof. Eric Pianka, who wants ebola to kill of 90% of the world, is a member of that site.

[mazack]

Steven Jones is researching what he calls evidence that the twin towers were brought down by explosives detonated inside them, not by hijacked airliners.

Give me a break. So you and your liberal friends lost the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections -- get over it. And stop accusing the government of doing something for which you have no credible evidence. 9/11 would have happened had Al Gore been in office too.

It's time for you moonbats to get over your trauma of two presidential election defeats in a row and stop all this nonsense about 9/11 being an inside job. You are no more credible than the LaRouche supporters, but you are more annoying. Please do us all a favor and keep your mouths shut until you that know what you are saying has any grain of truth in it at all.

[Aussie Dasher]

"self-respecting Moonbat"??? Surely a contradiction in terms...

[OldFriend]

The sin is that these people are given a forum on CSPIN, on Hannity's show, etc.

[xcamel]

that is the epitomy of the chinese water torture of "creeping nannyisim" and "radical moonbatism"

drip...drip...drip....drip....

[Non-Sequitur]

So how many of the people pooh-poohing this lame conspiracy theory will turn around and claim Clinton covered up the real cause of the TWA 800 crash?

[mazack]

oops, should have been "know that" instead of "that know" ... maybe I should keep my mouth shut too ;)

[srmorton]

This quote from Judy Wood, formerly an assistant professor at Clemson, really got me:

Are you blackballed for delving into this topic? Oh yes," Wood said. "And that is why there are so few who do. Most contracts have something to do with some government research lab. So what would that do to you? The consequences are too great for a career. But I made the choice that truth was more important."

"If we're in higher education to be trying to encourage critical thinking," Wood says, "why would we say 'believe this because everybody else does?'"

She calls these outlandish conspiracy theories "truth", yet would have no problem with a professor who presented the theories of evolution and global warming as absolute fact without reference to the other side of the argument. She would have no problem with history textbooks that deliberately take a liberal slant or even outright contradict the what the actual facts are. In these cases, I'm sure she would think it's okay to "believe this because everybody else does".

[SoftballMominVA]

Just for argument's sake.....let's say that the Pentagon was indeed hit by a missle, instead of a plane. (Not that it was mind you, I live outside DC and I saw the wreckage myself on 9-12 standing on the hill from Columbia Pike...but I digress)

Okay, it was a missle.....what happened to the plane and the people on it? Can any of these barking moonbats answer that question