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[David Morris]

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24626-inside-the-minds-of-the-jfk-conspiracy-theorists.html

To believe that the US government planned or deliberately allowed the 9/11
attacks, you'd have to posit that President Bush intentionally sacrificed
3,000 Americans. To believe that explosives, not planes, brought down the
buildings, you'd have to imagine an operation large enough to plant the
devices without anyone getting caught.

To insist that the truth remains hidden, you'd have to assume that everyone
who has reviewed the attacks and the events leading up to them - the CIA,
the Justice Department, the Federal Aviation Administration, the North
American Aerospace Defense Command, the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, scientific organisations, peer-reviewed journals, news
organisations, the airlines, and local law enforcement agencies in three
states - was incompetent, deceived or part of the cover-up.

And yet, as Slate's Jeremy Stahl points out, millions of Americans hold
these beliefs. In a Zogby poll taken six years ago, only 64 per cent of US
adults agreed that the attacks "caught US intelligence and military forces
off guard". More than 30 per cent chose a different conclusion: that
"certain elements in the US government knew the attacks were coming but
consciously let them proceed for various political, military, and economic
motives", or that these government elements "actively planned or assisted
some aspects of the attacks".

How can this be? How can so many people, in the name of scepticism, promote
so many absurdities?

The answer is that people who suspect conspiracies aren't really sceptics.
Like the rest of us, they're selective doubters. They favour a world view,
which they uncritically defend. But their worldview isn't about God,
values, freedom, or equality. It's about the omnipotence of elites.
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