CONSPIRACY CRANKS. CREATING CRAZED '9/11 TRUTH'.

NY Post ^ | September 12, 2006 | By JAMES B. MEIGS

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ON Feb. 7, 2005, I became a member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/New World Order/Illuminati conspiracy for world domination. That day, Popular Mechanics, the magazine I edit, hit newsstands with a story debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories. Within hours, the online community of 9/11 conspiracy buffs - which calls itself the "9/11 Truth Movement" - was aflame with wild fantasies about me, my staff and the article we had published. Conspiracy Web sites labeled Popular Mechanics a "CIA front organization" and compared us to Nazis and war criminals.

For a 104-year-old magazine about science, technology, home improvement and car maintenance, this was pretty extreme stuff. What had we done to provoke such outrage?

Research.

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I guess this guy was NOT the technical advisor for Farenhate 9-11.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"What had we done to provoke such outrage? "

You told the truth.

[.cnI redruM]

"ON Feb. 7, 2005, I became a member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/New World Order/Illuminati "-

I've been one for years, and they won't even send me my lousy secret decoder ring....

[Echo Talon]

hmmm, an American Airlines cruise missile... hmmmm, where do they get enough tinfoil?

[stm]

"In every single case, we found that the very facts used by conspiracy theorists to support their fantasies are mistaken, misunderstood or deliberately falsified."

[Schnucki]

Sites like loose change are in it for the money and always were.

The loose change guys put together a really shabby, inaccurate movie and are now making a fortune on it because there are so many purposely ignorant people who will spend the $10 to $15 that is charged for the dvd.

It's kind of like a taxation on stupidity, but the problem is that so many folks now believe the bizarre assertions that it's somehow becoming acceptable.

[stm]

"stupidity tax"

Bwahahahahahahaaaa! We could eliminate the national debt with something like that!

[dfwgator]

I've been one for years, and they won't even send me my lousy secret decoder ring....

I got mine, but all the messages ever say is "Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine."

[jpf]

Funny thing this, I was just "banned" from slate for ridiculing a 911 conspiracy nut. I was a little overzealous, it happens.

I guess asking whether he wanted me to refer to him as "crazy" or a "liar" crossed the line.

It's a little like being deported from Cuba I think.

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I lent them some of my old headgear.

[dfwgator]

The loose change guys put together a really shabby, inaccurate movie and are now making a fortune on it because there are so many purposely ignorant people who will spend the $10 to $15 that is charged for the dvd.

"BRILLIANT!"

[Wallace T.]

where do they get enough tinfoil?

I don't think all the aluminum mills in America can produce enough to wrap the theories of the 9-11 crazies.

[kb2614]

ON Feb. 7, 2005, I became a member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/New World Order/Illuminati conspiracy for world domination.

WELCOME BROTHER!!! You do remember the secret handshake, right?? :-)

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and we all know that Ovaltine is a secretly held subsidiary of Beelezburton.

[stylin19a]

I wish he wouldn't include the illuminati...we have our own thing going on...

[Wolfie]

Reminds me of the whackjobs that said the same thing about the Oklahoma City bombing.

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I used to be a star poster on slab. Then I emerged from the dark side of the force...

[listenhillary]

Paging Oliver Stone - Forget your new project idea.

[Echo Talon]

no doubt.

[.cnI redruM]

I knew this guy who I hate to admit is a fellow ORSA. He seriously believed the US Govt ordered McVeigh to blow up the building in order to incinerate a bunch of data that could have incriminated Bill and Hill concerning Whitewater. There are some genuine nut cases on the right as well.