Tag: conspiracy theory

World Trade Center 7 Collapse report released–Truthers deny everything in it (without reading it)

As it fell…

The truthers and fellow Unicorn hunters have some more data to play with and dissect today after the release of a three year study on the collapse of World Trade Center building 7.

“Heating of floor beams and girders caused a critical support column to fail,” said Shyam Sunder, the lead investigator. “Video and photographic evidence combined with detailed computer simulations show that neither explosives nor fuel oils played a role in the collapse that brought the building down.”

No one died when 7 World Trade Center fell, nearly seven hours after the twin towers came down. But the collapse of the adjacent tower — once home to branch offices of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secret Service and to the Giuliani administration’s emergency operations center — is cited in hundreds of books and Internet sites as perhaps the most compelling evidence that an insider secretly planted explosives, intentionally destroying the tower.

Read the full NIST report before you leave a comment.

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Dragons, Leprechauns, Boogy Men, Truthers and Conspiracy Theorists.

This is a good article about how we are retrogressing intellectually by the spread of more and more conspiracy theories by folks who aren’t exactly the top thinkers in the world.

Sometimes it appears as if Western societies have regressed, adopting a medieval attitude towards calamitous acts. Back in the Dark Ages, people regarded accidents, disasters and other acts of misfortune as the work of hidden forces. Accidents did not happen, apparently – they were intentionally caused, either by divine or malevolent forces. Misdeeds were often said to have been caused by people who had been manipulated by ‘evil forces’.

This primitive outlook is making a comeback; it informs the way many people make sense of high-profile catastrophes today. Conspiracy theories are pushed forward to explain what happened on 9/11, or why there was such devastation in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

I’ve said it dozens of times. Anyone who believes in conspiracy theories has never been in charge of more than 4 people in business and have them try to do something the same way and in secret.

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