Tinfoil Dreams

Michelle Malkin has a piece in the New York Post on the raging tinfoil hat brigade of 9/11 denialists who like to call their particular delusions "Truth". Essentially, it is a review of the essential book that effectively and systematically dismantles the "Truther's" arguments, Debunking 9/11 Myths. Not that logic, laws of physics or real facts can make a dent in that particular psychosis, but it can at least inoculate the uninfected from descending into that fever swamp.

I GET several e-mails from 9/11 conspiracy theorists every week, usually typed in all capital letters with minimal punctuation and maximum sputter. Here's a typical message I received last Tuesday: "It appears you are not a believer. So, I have only one question, perhaps, but doubtfully, you can answer. WHY DID BUILDING SEVEN COME DOWN?"

As it happens, Popular Mechanics magazine's new book, "Debunking 9/11 Myths," answers that question concisely - with the caps key off. Among the unhinged fever swamps in academia and on the Internet, there is widespread suspicion that World Trade Center 7 collapsed as a result of a controlled demolition set by Secret Service and CIA agents who had offices there.

Reality check for the Twilight Zoners: Federal investigators and experts believe a combination of massive damage from falling debris plus raging fires led to a progressive collapse of WTC 7, causing structural failures that brought the building down.

Popular Mechanics patiently bats down the paranoid delusions of Bush-bashers and terrorism-deniers who have seized on flimsy evidence and cherry-picked quotes and misquotes to bolster their cockamamie theories.

Read the whole thing, it is vastly entertaining. As always when I discuss this particular topic lately, I'd just like to take a moment to Google Bomb:

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