Reply #97: Actually, I didn't suggest the equation....

[Jazz2006]

"conspiracy = generally not credible".

Btw, my post is still on this thread. I initially replied in the wrong spot so I posted it in the correct spot (i.e. so that it was "replying" to the post I intended to reply to) and then removed the one that was in the wrong spot.... but it's still here at #36.

There are entire threads and many thousands of posts devoted to the "free fall" issue in the Sept. 11 forum ~ rather than me giving you a source or a dozen sources, I'd suggest you go check out those threads and view a whole host of sources with opposing viewpoints from which you can asertain for yourself, if you apply critical thinking skills and an open mind, that the buildings did not fall at free fall speeds. It is of infinitely more value for you to obtain information from a number of sources rather than just buy into something that someone tells you or something you get from a single source. Particularly when the issue is controversial and there are conflicting views, because it is only by reading, researching, and considering those conflicting views yourself that you can come to really understand a controversial issue.

In addition, we are not supposed to discuss 9/11 stuff here in GD and posting links to 9/11 stuff here would probably get my post deleted.

I agree with you that it would be ridiculous to discredit an alternative theory "just because the possible implications would be too horrible to consider".

But I disagree with you that "that's the trap Noam Chomsky got himself into". Quite the opposite, in fact. It is not that he found the implications "too horrible" to consider, but rather that he considered the allegation (that the admin had foreknowledge) and concluded that the theory was hopelessly implausible. Then he repeated it: "hopelessly implausible". Then he added, "So hopelessly implausible that I don't see any point in talking about it".

"Hopelessly implausible" does not equal "too horrible to contemplate". Chomsky hardly seems to be a man who would find government complicity as something "too horrible to contemplate".

I certainly don't find it "too horrible to contemplate" but I do find the conspiracy theories hopelessly implausible.