Reply #36: Try proving the Earth is Round.

[MervinFerd]

Without recourse to authority.

You seem to mostly have your head on straight.

But one last point. From some experience debating the Woos.

It is extraordinarily, remarkably difficult to "prove" a proposition that is not actually in dispute. You -cannot- honestly debate whether the Earth is round or Armstrong landed on the Moon. Or that you are -actually- sitting in (whatever) city you are now in. Try it.

The fact that (for example) the Pentagon was hit by a jetliner is only slightly less well established than these things--missing plane and passengers, eyewitnesses, plane and body parts found in bldg, etc. Asking the Government to "prove" this occurence further is nonsense--like demanding they prove the Pentagon has 5 sides. It's entirely understandable that the officials involved in the investigations tell No Plane Conspiracy Theorist to stick their planes up their behinds.

Always remember that "the Government" or "the Pentagon" is actually individual human beings, many of whom lost friends in 911.

The Pentagon is pathologically secretive. They don't allow pictures even in normal times. But, if they had a rational basis for not releasing surveilance tapes, its probably because they showed Rumsfeld getting a BJ in the parking lot.

I said one last point, but one more.


You evaluate arguments on their merits; but, you often must depend on the source for the validity of evidence. If you know that individuals, organizations, or web sites have lied, or been negligently careless, or deny the Holocaust--be skeptical of future claims.