[lbo-talk] A question for the anti-"conspiracy"-theorists about9/11

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Aug 23 07:46:24 PDT 2006


Jerry Monaco wrote:
>
> On 8/23/06, Joseph Wanzala <jwanzala at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Joanna,
> >
> > the 9-11 Truth movement is based entirely on trying to find out what actually happened.
>
> JM: The "truth is out there" I suppose. Nothing I have read of any
> of the 9/11 conspiracy narratives shows any regard for the very notion
> of evidence. It is not that they don't present evidence, it is that
> they don't seem to have a notion of what evidence is.

We know what happened, so I would compare "The Truth MOvement" to the Intelligent Design Movement; any real or apparent 'flaw' in current knowledge(as there always is in knowledge of reality) is interpreted as "evidence" for a contrary bit of idiocy.

Carrol



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