Reply #17: I say this with sadness

[WilliamPitt]

...but it's a fair portion of the whole 9/11 conspiracy thing, and a large part of why legitimate 9/11 inquiries have fallen apart. Someone's out there peddling "thermite bombs took down the Towers/missile hit the Pentagon" because enough people are willing to pay to hear it...but those assinine theories have subsumed legitimate lines of inquiry, cuz those didn't pay.

10% of the country will pay handomely to hear someone tell them their worst fears are true...and there are plenty of people willing to fleece that 10%. It's true on both sides of the political aisle. Why do you think so many demonstrably deranged right-wing conspiracy theories never die? Vince Foster, drug-running at the Mena airport, the Clinton Body Count, etc.? It's because someone gets paid to keep those stories alive by keeping them alive. Bev Harris is another example: taking legitimate inquiries into electronic voting machines and subsuming the entire investigation with nonsense out of a motive for profit.

Permanent critics, out of their niche but still milking the cow.