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August 07, 2006

Awww...

Morons, coming together.

(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.

Even crazies need affirmation, and "community."

It takes a village, after all.

Posted by slublog at August 7, 2006 12:00 AM

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I watched a little of the conference on CSPAN. What a bunch of kooks and nutcases.
Just goes to show you that the difference between my donkeys (I raise them) and these professors is only a matter of degrees.

Posted by: Old_dawg at August 8, 2006 05:14 PM

"These men aren't uneducated junk scientists" - no, but they seem to be the only two educated people who are ever quoted or mentioned in these types of articles. Why, you'd almost think that they're rarities - oddballs among historians and physicists - but that would mean that they're undeserving of all this attention. Surely that can't be true.

Why, those mean tricksters at Popular Mechanics must be behind this. And I bet they were in on the conspiracy all along.

Posted by: Kimberly at August 8, 2006 08:14 PM