Elsewhere…

  • Oliver Stone’s Bookmarks – After being profiled the recent Chronicle of Higher Education cover story "Professors of Paranoia?"  leading 9/11 conspiracy theorist Steven E. Jones has launched the Journal of 9/11 Studies, which is billed as "a peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic-only journal covering the whole  of research relating to 9/11/2001." Articles from the premiere issue include Frank Legge’s "9/11 – Evidence for Controlled Demolition: a Short List of Observations" and "The Flying Elephant: Evidence for the Involvement of a Third Jet in the WTC Attacks," by an English prof named Dixon Reynolds.  Time being finite,  I see little reason to waste my hours poring over the technical arguments raised by these fringe academics, which of course is not to suggest that their arguments can or should be dismissed out of hand.  In a perfect world, I suppose the grassy knoll speculation about controlled demolition and government complicity could be put to rest by a blockbuster episode of Mythbusters, but until Adam and Jamie are blessed with a multi-billion dollar production budget, your best bet for informed skepticism is probably 911Myths.com.

Time to start drinking.