Sunday, September 03, 2006

The Government takes some swings at 9-11 conspiracy theorists

Federal agencies recently published two reports concerning the nature of the 9-11 attacks, in an attempt to defuse the disturbingly popular crackpot theories concerning that day's events.
Jim Dwyer of the New York Times penned a nifty story on the subject.
Here's a bit of it:
The State Department report is titled, "The Top Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theories" and says, "Numerous unfounded conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11 attacks continue to circulate, especially on the Internet." The report is dated Aug. 28 and appears as a special feature on the department's web site, at http://usinfo.state.gov/media/ misinformation.html.

The report brought to light one little-known detail about the morning: a private demolition monitoring firm, Protec Documentation Services, had seismographs at several construction sites in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Those machines documented the tremors of the falling towers, but captured no ground vibrations before the collapses from demolition charges or bombs, according to a separate report by Brent Blanchard, the director of field operations for Protec.
(Albany Times-Union)

The hard-core conspiracy theorist will, of course, explain away the seismographic evidence as another facet of the conspiracy.

Watch out for unfalsifiable theories and look for best explanations, people.

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