[extropy-chat] Meta: debunking a 911 meme

[Ian Goddard]

A remarkably prolific meme carries the idea that
Flight 77 did not crash into the Pentagon on Sept 11.
The basis for it is ex-post-facto interpretation based
on expectations of what should happen. Given
contradictions between those expectations and the
crash scene, the idea of a faked plane crash is
derived. Yet anyone who has taken even one physics
course knows that intuitive assumptions about what
should happen in the interaction of complex physical
systems very often prove to be at odds with what
actually does happen. Nobody with the given meme seems
to be aware of that elementary fact, mistaking their
untested naive assumptions for given facts from which
clear and even remarkable conclusions can be derived
with deductive certitude. 

So the following short report subjects that prolific
meme to logico-empirical test criteria:

http://iangoddard.net/pentagon.htm

 

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