She had questions that I wasn't able to address beyond the "What these people are saying makes ABSOLUTELY no sense!" standpoint. IE she had mirrored some BS data about the tempature of steel melting, etc, etc. I told her, "Listen, I should never be able to poke you, because when I move my finger to poke you, it's always half the distance closer, and since it's always half the distance it never actually touches, yet.... *poke poke*".
Curious to see her reaction to the scientific data from PM.
I heard it said that what the 9/11 conspiracy belief comes right down to, in many cases, is a nearly religious belief on the part of many people that the government is powerful and competent.
It's the same kind of belief that motivated the Red Army to overthrow the Russian monarchy and impose Communism across a vast swath of the world - this blind faith that if only the RIGHT people were in charge, if only the SMART people were in charge (namely, THEM), the force of government could be turned to noble ends and capably and efficiently solve all of society's problems.
We see this same impulse behind HillaryCare, the TSA, and so on.
They believe that the government was responsible for 9/11 because if they accepted reality that government is a stupid, blind giant, blundering along and smashing whatever it comes across, then their dreams of a government-imposed utopia fall to ashes.
They are forced to believe that the government was smart enough, and capable enough, to pull of a 9/11 conspiracy, because otherwise how in the world could they expect their dream of nationalized health care to work?
She probably saw "Loose Change", an incredibly inept example of quote-mining and cherry-picking. You can see it on Google Video, if you must.
Here's a humorous response:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=911_morons
and another funny site mocking Loose Change
http://loosetrains911.blogspot.com/
and here are some more serious sites that debunk the conspiracy nuts
http://www.911myths.com/index.html
http://www.debunking911.com/index.html
http://911conspiracysmasher.blogspot.com/
http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/
Perhaps the most damning words against these guys comes from their own statements.
Watch "9/11 Deniers Speak" on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uFNBpjZCI4