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10 legit reasons 9/11 was demonstrably an inside job.

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1) The FEMA metallurgy report.

The analysis performed on the WTC steel by Professor Jonathan Barnett proves that it was attacked by some form of munition, since it was riddled with holes and had been severely eroded/melted by something containing high concentrations of sulfur.

"The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion of samples 1 and 2 are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified."




"A one-inch column has been reduced to half-inch thickness. Its edges--which are curled like a paper scroll--have been thinned to almost razor sharpness. Gaping holes--some larger than a silver dollar--let light shine through a formerly solid steel flange. This Swiss cheese appearance shocked all of the fire-wise professors, who expected to see distortion and bending--but not holes."




2) The hijackers' VISA applications should have been rejected by the state department.


Investigating the attacks, political journal National Review obtained copies of the VISA applications for 15 of the 19 named hijackers, and in the process found that all 15 should have been refused entry.




"A new report accuses the State Department of staggering lapses in its visa program that gave Sept. 11 hijackers entry into the United States.

The political journal National Review obtained the visa applications for 15 of the 19 hijackers — and evidence that all of them should have been denied entry to the country."


3) Niaz Naik's admission.

The former Pakistani foreign secretary claims he was told by top-level American officials at a UN meeting in July 2001, that military action would be taken against Afghanistan by October.

"Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1550366.stm

4) Military grade munitions.

Professor Niels Harrit published a peer-reviewed article in 2009 proving the existence of high-energy thermite residue in four out of four WTC samples.

http://benthamopen.com/tocpj/articles/V002/7TOCPJ.pdf

5) The bin Laden "confession tape" is a demonstrable fraud.

"Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University's religious studies' department and the foremost Bin Laden expert, argues that the increasingly secular language in the video and audio tapes of Osama (his earliest ones are littered with references to God and the Prophet Mohammed) are inconsistent with his strict Islamic religion, Wahhabism.

He notes that, on one video, Bin Laden wears golden rings on his fingers, an adornment banned among Wahhabi followers."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212851/Has-Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-seven-years--U-S-Britain-covering-continue-war-terror.html

Many thanks to whoever posted this rather sardonic entry to Urban Dictionary:-

Urban dictionary: Magic Video Tape.

This is the VHS tape that was miraculously found by US troops in Afghanistan which contained an alleged confession by Osama bin Laden to be the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. He previously denied involvement so it was fortuitous that this tape was found in a country the size of Texas. The man in the video tape does not really look like bin Laden but the media has failed to point this out.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=magic+video+tape

6) Israeli intelligence were literally caught celebrating.

Bizarre, but true. Also bizarre is that they were arrested, passed to the FBI, interrogated for several months, failed and/or refused multiple lie detector tests, then were spontaneously released by Michael Chertoff.

"THERE was ruin and terror in Manhattan, but, over the Hudson River in New Jersey, a handful of men were dancing.

As the World Trade Centre burned and crumpled, the five men celebrated and filmed the worst atrocity ever committed on American soil as it played out before their eyes.

Who do you think they were? Palestinians? Saudis? Iraqis, even? Al-Qaeda, surely? Wrong on all counts. They were Israelis - and at least two of them were Israeli intelligence agents, working for Mossad, the equivalent of MI6 or the CIA."

http://www.heraldscotland.com/five-israelis-were-seen-filming-as-jet-l iners-ploughed-into-the-twin-towers-on-september-11-2001-1.829220

7) Basic Newtonian mechanics.

Gravity gets stronger the closer to the ground you get, which necessarily means resistance to gravity also gets stronger the closer to the ground you get. This explains why, when we want stuff to fall down vertically, we attack it at the bottom and not the top. Flying a plane into the 93rd floor of a 110 floor building cannot and will not cause the entire structure to fall down vertically, simply because the 17 floors directly above point of impact are still at rest on a force fully capable of resisting their own weight. A local failure at point of impact should have resulted in the damaged chunk sliding off the building and falling to the path of least resistance. In sum, the only way to reconcile physics with what actually happened to the WTC buildings is explosives.

8) Cheney likely gave a direct order not to shoot down flight 77.

The testimony of Norman Mineta before the 9/11 commission seems to suggest Cheney was kept aware of the path of flight 77 as it approached the Pentagon, and that he repeated an order not to shoot it down.

MR. HAMILTON: We thank you for that. I wanted to focus just a moment on the Presidential Emergency Operating Center. You were there for a good part of the day. I think you were there with the vice president. And when you had that order given, I think it was by the president, that authorized the shooting down of commercial aircraft that were suspected to be controlled by terrorists, were you there when that order was given?

MR. MINETA: No, I was not. I was made aware of it during the time that the airplane coming into the Pentagon. There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, "The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got down to, "The plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the vice president, "Do the orders still stand?" And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary!!?

http://911research.wtc7.net/disinfo/alibis/cheney.html

9) Who gained?

Massive corporate contracts in a region which for the last 60 years had been pretty much off-limits to America because of the Cold War and the counter-influence of the Soviet Union.

Most of Israel's enemies taken out of action and replaced with pro-US governments.

PNAC gets its "New Pearl Harbor" event.

A global narrative of terrorism, at a price of invasive domestic security to keep the people in line and aggressive foreign policy to export American culture.

Iran gets strangled as its anti-American allies in the region are slowly picked off one by one. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya. Suddenly it is not Israel which is isolated and without support in the region: it is Iran.

10) Many strange deaths.

I'll just give a single example, but there are many others (Danny Jowenko, Barry Jennings etc...):-

"A pilot who wrote a conspiracy theory book about 9/11 is dead after he shot his two teenage children and family dog before turning the gun on himself.

Micalia Phillips, 14, and her 17-year-old brother Alex, were also found dead at the home inside the gated Forrest Meadows community.

The former airline pilot's controversial conspiracy book The Big Bamboozle: 9/11 and the War on Terror was released last year.

While he was writing it, Marshall believed that his life was in danger because of the allegations involved.

According to Santa Barbara View, during the editing and pre-marketing process of Marshall’s book, he expressed some degree of paranoia because the nonfiction work accused the George W. Bush administration of being in cahoots with the Saudi intelligence community in training the hijackers who died in the planes used in the attacks."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2275258/Phillip-Marshall-Forme r-airline-pilot-conspiracy-theorist-shot-dead-teenage-children-dog-tur ning-gun-himself.html

Now here it gets particularly interesting.

Investigative Reporter Finds Holes In Official Finding Of Murder-Suicide In California Death of 9/11 Author.

The 9/11 author who was found dead in his California home earlier this month was right-handed, but authorities determined that he shot himself in the left side of the head, a prominent investigative journalist reports.

The bodies of Phillip Marshall, his two children, and the family dog were found on February 2, and officials quickly determined it was a murder-suicide. But the Washington, D.C.-based Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) has found evidence that contradicts the official finding. WMR reports that Marshall might have possessed something in his Murphys, California, home that prompted someone to commit murder. Also, the community in Calaveras County is pushing for the sheriff's office to conduct a more thorough investigation.

http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/investigative-reporter-fi nds-holes-in.html

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  • George_HorseGeorge_Horse 499 Pts   -  
    Also to mention how it would practically be impossible for aircraft to destroy two large steel constructed skyscrapers. The more probable theory is use of explosives which brought down the two buildings. 
    Zombieguy1987
    "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? " ~Epicurus

    "A communist is like a crocodile" ~Winston Churchill

    We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.~Orson Welles
  • ErfisflatErfisflat 1675 Pts   -  

    I think it is obvious that the 9/11 official narrative is nonsensical, and any competent and critical thinker agrees.
    George_HorseZombieguy1987averyapro
    Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

    The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

    Wayne Dyer
  • George_HorseGeorge_Horse 499 Pts   -  
    @Erfisflat ; Boeing 757s are variable sweep wing aircraft!
    Erfisflat
    "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? " ~Epicurus

    "A communist is like a crocodile" ~Winston Churchill

    We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.~Orson Welles
  • piloteerpiloteer 1577 Pts   -   edited September 2018
    Just keep ignoring that fact that it is your society that is responsible for causing other societies to want to destroy you. The big one will come someday, and if you survive, you'll probably deny that it was YOUR FAULT. How long will the people of the US pretend that it wasn't their fault for causing 9/11?
  • MayCaesarMayCaesar 6053 Pts   -  
    So... where are the reasons? Your very first claim contradicts the source you provided for it. You do not seriously hope this piece is going to pass any sort of peer review, do you? ;)

    21st century, and some people still do not know that steel melts from high temperatures, something smiths have been using for thousands years. ¡Grandioso!
  • Zombieguy1987Zombieguy1987 471 Pts   -  
    Erfisflat said:

    I think it is obvious that the 9/11 official narrative is nonsensical, and any competent and critical thinker agrees.
    I've never seen an aircraft do that in the history of aircrafts
    ErfisflatGeorge_Horse
  • All of this stuff checks out. Hell, I’ve even done the research myself. But, I don’t get why. We went in to the Iraq war for oil, we didn’t even attack the correct people. The terrorists were Saudi Arabians.
    Zombieguy1987
    Not every quote you read on the internet is true- Abraham Lincoln
  • @Wowsil
    ok, but we still went in for oil. Read between the lines and dig deeper. You’ll find out.
    Zombieguy1987
    Not every quote you read on the internet is true- Abraham Lincoln
  • Zombieguy1987Zombieguy1987 471 Pts   -  
    @AmericanFurryBoy ;

    Because, when America smells oil, they need to send some FREEDOM*!
    *By freedom we mean war!
  • ErfisflatErfisflat 1675 Pts   -  
    Erfisflat said:

    I think it is obvious that the 9/11 official narrative is nonsensical, and any competent and critical thinker agrees.
    I've never seen an aircraft do that in the history of aircrafts
    That's because it is farcical.
    Zombieguy1987George_Horse
    Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

    The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

    Wayne Dyer
  • ErfisflatErfisflat 1675 Pts   -  
    @Wowsil
    ok, but we still went in for oil. Read between the lines and dig deeper. You’ll find out.
    We are building a worldwide empire.
    George_Horse
    Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

    The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

    Wayne Dyer
  • Zombieguy1987Zombieguy1987 471 Pts   -  
    Erfisflat said:
    Erfisflat said:

    I think it is obvious that the 9/11 official narrative is nonsensical, and any competent and critical thinker agrees.
    I've never seen an aircraft do that in the history of aircrafts
    That's because it is farcical.
    What the heck is farcical!?
  • ErfisflatErfisflat 1675 Pts   -  
    Zombieguy1987George_Horse
    Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

    The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

    Wayne Dyer
  • Zombieguy1987Zombieguy1987 471 Pts   -  
    @Erfisflat ;

    Hahahaha. You think that's funny....

    Flat Earth comedy is sinking faster than the Lusitania (Which I bet is another one of his conspiracies. Though this is one I can accept) 
  • ErfisflatErfisflat 1675 Pts   -   edited September 2018
    MayCaesar said:
    So... where are the reasons? Your very first claim contradicts the source you provided for it. You do not seriously hope this piece is going to pass any sort of peer review, do you? ;)

    21st century, and some people still do not know that steel melts from high temperatures, something smiths have been using for thousands years. ¡Grandioso!
    The hellish office fires!!!  With added sprinkler systems for extra fuel!
    George_Horse
    Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

    The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

    Wayne Dyer
  • Zombieguy1987Zombieguy1987 471 Pts   -  
    Erfisflat said:
    Erfisflat said:

    I think it is obvious that the 9/11 official narrative is nonsensical, and any competent and critical thinker agrees.
    I've never seen an aircraft do that in the history of aircrafts
    That's because it is farcical.

    so, based of the definition of Farcical, what are you calling ridiculous? my comment, or your own comment?
  • ErfisflatErfisflat 1675 Pts   -  
    George_Horse
    Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

    The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

    Wayne Dyer
  • ErfisflatErfisflat 1675 Pts   -  
    Erfisflat said:
    Erfisflat said:

    I think it is obvious that the 9/11 official narrative is nonsensical, and any competent and critical thinker agrees.
    I've never seen an aircraft do that in the history of aircrafts
    That's because it is farcical.

    so, based of the definition of Farcical, what are you calling ridiculous? my comment, or your own comment?
    Out of curiosity, do you know what your IQ is?

    The cartoon is farcical. 
    Zombieguy1987
    Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

    The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

    Wayne Dyer
  • GooberryGooberry 608 Pts   -  
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    Zombieguy1987
  • ErfisflatErfisflat 1675 Pts   -  
    Zombieguy1987George_Horse
    Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

    The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

    Wayne Dyer
  • Zombieguy1987Zombieguy1987 471 Pts   -  
    @Erfisflat ;

    , It's the first time I even heard of that word!

    Stop being a jerk and go back to making logical fallacies  
  • Zombieguy1987Zombieguy1987 471 Pts   -  
    Also to mention how it would practically be impossible for aircraft to destroy two large steel constructed skyscrapers. The more probable theory is use of explosives which brought down the two buildings. 
    Yeah, the people who made the Titanic said it was impossible to sink, and it sank.

    The Nazis thought their army was impossible to defeat. And the lost.

    During World War 1, Many leaders thought it would be impossible for anyone to win because of trench warfare. The war ended.

    Humanity thought it was impossible to go into outer space, yet we have space programs like NASA.

    The American people thought it was impossible for Trump to be elected, yet he's our president.

    Nothing is impossible to do. It is possible for an aircraft to destroy a steel constructed skyscraper. 
    Erfisflat
  • ErfisflatErfisflat 1675 Pts   -  
    @Erfisflat ;

    , It's the first time I even heard of that word!

    Stop being a jerk and go back to making logical fallacies  
    I wasn't trying to be mean, it was a genuine question. Which logical fallacy was that?
    Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

    The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

    Wayne Dyer
  • ErfisflatErfisflat 1675 Pts   -  
    Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

    The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

    Wayne Dyer
  • ErfisflatErfisflat 1675 Pts   -   edited September 2018
    Zombieguy1987JoesephGeorge_Horse
    Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

    The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

    Wayne Dyer
  • averyaproaveryapro 150 Pts   -  
    I personally think it was done from the inside but the planes crashed into the buildings to make it seem real. I never get the chance to talk about this because everyone thinks it's fake and that I'm talking about it for attention but I finally have a chance to explain it. I think that the hijacking was all set up and it just doesn't seem realistic. With the hijackers VISA'S they would have realized that they don't have any or that they were expired, out of date, etc. Also, I truly believe that some government official(s) were inside the building and they set off some kind of explosive to destroy the towers. Also, a Boeing plane would not have the structure and the force to make a huge building explode and actually have mass damage. Basically, the only thing that would have a reasonable amount of power would be explosives throughout the building. That would be the only way that the building could actually explode. Also, the Pentagon doesn't need a conspiracy because it makes no sense that a Boeing plane damaged it considering it's one of the most heavily guarded and defended government properties and for a plane to do that much damage by going through it is ridiculous because it doesn't make any sense that it would happen. 
    Erfisflat
  • ErfisflatErfisflat 1675 Pts   -  
    averyapro said:
    I personally think it was done from the inside but the planes crashed into the buildings to make it seem real. I never get the chance to talk about this because everyone thinks it's fake and that I'm talking about it for attention but I finally have a chance to explain it. I think that the hijacking was all set up and it just doesn't seem realistic. With the hijackers VISA'S they would have realized that they don't have any or that they were expired, out of date, etc. Also, I truly believe that some government official(s) were inside the building and they set off some kind of explosive to destroy the towers. Also, a Boeing plane would not have the structure and the force to make a huge building explode and actually have mass damage. Basically, the only thing that would have a reasonable amount of power would be explosives throughout the building. That would be the only way that the building could actually explode. Also, the Pentagon doesn't need a conspiracy because it makes no sense that a Boeing plane damaged it considering it's one of the most heavily guarded and defended government properties and for a plane to do that much damage by going through it is ridiculous because it doesn't make any sense that it would happen. 
    It's understandable that you might be a bit discouraged to talk about this. The apologetics like to spew ad hominem and other fallacies for not thinking like "everyone else". Being skeptical of a claim, especially one as nonsensical as the 9/11 commission is healthy, and is a sign of critical thought. So when the apologetics come at you with mostly insult, realize this is just damage control, a sign that you are probably correct in your thoughts. 
    Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

    The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

    Wayne Dyer
  • GooberryGooberry 608 Pts   -  
    Erfisflat said:

    Its it when someone intentionally presents only evidence that agrees with them out of a dataset that includes contradictory information?


    For example, it is cherry picking when someone claims that due to military backgrounds the pilots should and would have fought off 4 armed attackers; neglecting to account for facts such as “they were unarmed” and “it was standard airline policy at the time to cooperate with hijackers”?


    Or may be you would accept the example of cherry picking when one focuses on one or two professional opinions or studies, and discount and ignore the wide ranging multiple examples of other professionals in the same field holding differing positions?

    Asking for a friend....




    Multiple of these bullets do not fall into the criteria of evidence: I mean, just look at the first two bullet points as an example.


    They aren’t evidence of a conspiracy, as they are not themselves indicative of any foul play or intent.

    For example: if someone died in a car crash, finding unknown and unexplained corrosion on the car, does not itself indicate the car has been tampered with unless you can show the corrosion was intentional.


    Secondly, if someone commits a murder with a prohibited weapon - it’s not evidence that the government, or gun provider intentionally wanted that murder to happen. For that, you have to have evidence that there was intent.


    Why? 


    Because an explanation may require something to be true - but the same doesn’t go the other way around - and the something is often so generalized it could be true in numerous explanations:


    Rain requires it to be cloudy, but being cloudy is not evidence that it is raining.



    That’s why I say you don’t understand what evidence actually is: as you hold up this type of non-sequitor non-probative evidence all of the time repeatedly.



    And finally - the nail in the coffin is your approach. Most of the “evidence” presented is attempting to probe issues and problems with the current narrative - naively trying to suggest that the only alternative to the current narrative is OMG CONDPIRACY - rather than attempting to demonstrate your own narrative is more accurate.


    While you spend all your time doing this, you spend no time doing the same thing in reverse - probing issues and problems with your narrative. 


    This is the problem with conspiracy: even if you accept all these facts at face value (which I don’t), if this makes the specific narrative unlikely to have happened as described - what if your conspiracy is even more impossible and outlandish when you probe it?


    That’s why conspiracy theorist approach this from this massively asymmetric evidential basis, and is common with every example of faulty thinking from flat earth to creationism.


    The implicit approach to the argument that if you are right about anything - you are right about EVERYTHING - if we are wrong about anything - we are wrong about EVERYTHING.

  • ErfisflatErfisflat 1675 Pts   -  

    "Its it when someone intentionally presents only evidence that agrees with them out of a dataset that includes contradictory information?"


    This is beyond vague. If we were to see that contradictory information, yes.


    "For example, it is cherry picking when someone claims that due to military backgrounds the pilots should and would have fought off 4 armed attackers; neglecting to account for facts such as “they were unarmed” and “it was standard airline policy at the time to cooperate with hijackers”?"


    Your statement that "boxcutters are effective stabbing weapons" and "facts such as they were unarmed" are contradictory, which was it? We're they armed or no?


    "Or may be you would accept the example of cherry picking when one focuses on one or two professional opinions or studies, and discount and ignore the wide ranging multiple examples of other professionals in the same field holding differing positions?

    Asking for a friend...."


    I guess, if this were just "one or two professional studies". This is literally thousands of professional studies, including hundreds of PHDs and what does the opposition have? .gov and wiki sites?




    "Multiple of these bullets do not fall into the criteria of evidence: I mean, just look at the first two bullet points as an example.

    They aren’t evidence of a conspiracy, as they are not themselves indicative of any foul play or intent.

    For example: if someone died in a car crash, finding unknown and unexplained corrosion on the car, does not itself indicate the car has been tampered with unless you can show the corrosion was intentional."


    So, your assertion that natural erosion has occurred to the steel collumns of the WTC buildings? You are again cherry picking, this was shown intentional. Analasis shows:" ...had been severely eroded/melted by something containing high concentrations of sulfur."



    "Secondly, if someone commits a murder with a prohibited weapon - it’s not evidence that the government, or gun provider intentionally wanted that murder to happen. For that, you have to have evidence that there was intent."


    Again you seem to have forgotten that there was an investigation underway, not to mention a very large insurance claim specifically covering terrorist attacks. You remember, the motive?


    "Why? 


    Because an explanation may require something to be true - but the same doesn’t go the other way around - and the something is often so generalized it could be true in numerous explanations:


    Rain requires it to be cloudy, but being cloudy is not evidence that it is raining.



    That’s why I say you don’t understand what evidence actually is: as you hold up this type of non-sequitor non-probative evidence all of the time repeatedly."


    I'm still not sure where the disconnect is here. It seems you're still implying that professional opinion is not valid evidence. This is just ignorant.



    "And finally - the nail in the coffin is your approach. Most of the “evidence” presented is attempting to probe issues and problems with the current narrative - naively trying to suggest that the only alternative to the current narrative is OMG CONDPIRACY - rather than attempting to demonstrate your own narrative is more accurate."


    No, the approach is that there are several thousand experts that question the official narrative, some even calling it a blatant multi-faceted lie. I'm aware that it is a conspiracy, you may not be, but you are surely a minority, and your opinions on the matter are irrelevant, unless you have your PhD, even then, you are a sole opinion facing thousands.


    "While you spend all your time doing this, you spend no time doing the same thing in reverse - probing issues and problems with your narrative. 


    This is the problem with conspiracy: even if you accept all these facts at face value (which I don’t), if this makes the specific narrative unlikely to have happened as described - what if your conspiracy is even more impossible and outlandish when you probe it?"


    See explanation above. The burden is not on those asking questions and pointing out blatant lies and physical impossibilities. At best, an unbiased investigation is being asked.


    "That’s why conspiracy theorist approach this from this massively asymmetric evidential basis, and is common with every example of faulty thinking from flat earth to creationism."


    Blatant poisoning the well fallacy.


    "The implicit approach to the argument that if you are right about anything - you are right about EVERYTHING - if we are wrong about anything - we are wrong about EVERYTHING."


    Another burden shift.

    Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

    The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

    Wayne Dyer
  • George_HorseGeorge_Horse 499 Pts   -  
    Erfisflat said:

    Mmmmm yes, thank you. Those articles were quite the read!
    Erfisflat
    "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? " ~Epicurus

    "A communist is like a crocodile" ~Winston Churchill

    We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.~Orson Welles
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