bettiwettiwoo's Journal: Information as Cure

Herd Watching has an interesting post about a now-cured 9/11 Truther, Mike Metzger (MikeyMetz): A 9/11 'Truther' Reforms and What We Can Learn about Fringe Groups from It All ...

Personally, I find most interesting a bit from the quote from the former 'truther' himself:

For whatever reasons at the time, I no-showed the 8/11 truth action our group was doing in Albany. Instead, I watched a movie called Screw Loose Change. I expected it to point out a few corrections in some minor details of the film. To my surprise, it contested just about every claim in the entire movie. I was a bit shocked.
I was a true believer of all this controlled demolition nonsense for a time. I never cared about the physics or the claims of pseudo-"experts." What always did it for me was the fact that there was never a decent response to any of these questions by the government. [...] After watching Screw Loose Change, I delved into the world of 9/11 Truth debunking. Among my favorites are the Screw Loose Change Blog and 9/11 Myths[.] Finally, someone was answered all these pertinent questions with something that was a bit foreign to me... facts agreed upon by the experts.

Information as cure to conspiracy theories. Well, well, well, what do you know?!

[Mike Metzinger's new blog is called Confessions of an Ex-Truther.]

Only one problem ...

[tomhudson]

Just some food for thought ...

> "Finally, someone was answered all these pertinent questions with something that was a bit foreign to me... facts agreed upon by the experts"

Less than a century ago, experts also agreed that blacks were genetically inferior, because "they were more closely related to monkeys."

For a closer example, look at the "experts" in the stock market and their claims that CDOs (the repackaged sub-prime mortgages) were a safe investment. Or that "real estate never goes down" (ex

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[RailGunner]

Good point about "experts", however:

Things like fire burning hotter when oxygen is deprived is something that not only the the experts agree on, but is infinitely reproducible in a lab environment.

Lab science can also verify that metals become softer when heated.

So, there are "experts", and there is also reproducible science based on the laws of physics.

The 9/11 "Truthers" ignore these laws along with just about all of the other facts.

The "truthers" also never answer the question - if flight 77 didn't hit

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[StalinsNotDead]

if flight 77 didn't hit the Pentagon (as security camera footage clearly shows that it did), then where the hell is it?

The Bermuda Triangle?

call me crazy

[Mantorp]

I still think that the plane that crashed in PA was shot down rather than brought down by onboard acts of heroism.