Many conspiracy theories surround the events of September 11, 2001 . Some are more plausible than others, but most seem far too fantastical and outlandish for belief by any educated and reasonable person. Most would logistically and logically require too much to be believable and smack of borderline psychotic paranoia. For instance, the cultish Alex Jones Infowars/PrisonPlanet/911 Truther folks have repeated the teme ( ad nauseum, ad infinitum, or proof by assertion or argument by repetition ) that a plane never hit the Pentagon (or that passenger lists for the planes involved on 9/11 do not exist; see blog comments there for my debunking of that claim and provision of said lists). Of course the same people also claimed the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center were a controlled demolition using thermite explosives amongst a host of other crazy notions without credible evidence. The whole host of crazy ideas that Alex Jones’s cultish millennialist followers
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