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Debunking the paranoid fictions of the left

Austin Bay:

It's must reading for Michael Moore: Popular Mechanics magazine. The monthly science and engineering digest's latest issue is also an example of great investigative journalism " a "just the facts, ma'am" dragnet of expert analysis and succinct prose, putting hard cuffs on the most pernicious September 11 conspiracy theories.
Popular Mechanics details, then debunks, 16 of the worst fever swamp fictions whose malignant emotional, intellectual and political acids compound September 11's tragedy . (The online edition is available at www.popularmechanics.com .)
PM's editors use an effective technique for smacking down the fabrications: "hard evidence and a healthy dose of common sense." With the late New York Democratic Sen. Pat Moynihan's quip as a guide ("Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. He is not entitled to his own facts."), the editors say they learned "that a few [September 11 conspiracy] theories are based on something as innocent as a reporting error on that chaotic day. Others are the byproducts of cynical imaginations that aim to inject suspicion and animosity into public debate. Only by confronting such poisonous claims with irrefutable facts can we understand what really happened on a day that is forever seared into world history."
Physics whips foolishness, but physics can be a tough sell. Competent engineering analysis doesn't shrink to TV sound bites. In two tight paragraphs, however, PM dispenses with one of the more heinous September 11 lies: The claim that the Pentagon was not hit by an al Qaeda-hijacked jet, but the U.S. military did the deed with an American missile. (This is the accusation of French provocateur Thierry Meyssan in his bestseller "The Big Lie.")
Here's the conspiracy theory's hook: The hole in the Pentagon was smaller than the plane's wingspan. The anti-American conspirator's conclusion: voila, an American missile. PM's experts point out the obvious: "A crashing jet doesn't punch a cartoonlike outline of itself into a reinforced concrete building." As the jet crashed, "one wing hit the ground; the other was sheared off by the force of the impact with the Pentagon"s load-bearing columns. ... What was left of the plane flowed into the structure in a state closer to a liquid than a solid mass."

Read the whole article as well as the Popular Science piece. Antiwar pukes' credibility is shredded.