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Therefore the number of likes on such a video are as predictably high as they are meaningless. These really are some unbelievably basic errors of logic you’re falling for here. I could go on, but won’t. Instead I suggest you read an article on the psychology of people who claim to know the truth. Try this one.
Him to me, still playing “my hyperlink is bigger than yours”
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/141006poll.htm
News flash. This was a plane. Yes, a plane, not a missile.
News flash. This was a plane. Yes, a plane, not a missile.Source:News Corp Australia
Now that link proved to be an interesting one. It led to a story with the headline: “Scientific Poll: 84% Reject Official 9/11 Story”.
Published in 2006, the story is on a website called prisonplanet.com and has the byline of Steve Watson and Alex Jones. Jones is a famously eccentric conspiracy theorist who said the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012 had “some of the telltale signs of an inside job”.
But the really interesting fact, as I tried to explain to Sportsman, was that the whole premise of the article he sent me was false.
Here’s what the real poll question was.
“When it comes to what they knew prior to September 11th, 2001, about possible terrorist attacks against the United States, do you think members of the Bush Administration are telling the truth, are mostly telling the truth but hiding something, or are they mostly lying?”
In other words, it was a question about whether Bush was too complacent about terror threats before 9/11. Most people would answer yes to that. About 84% in fact. You could probably count me among them.
But the poll question as reported on prisonplanet.com was different. It read:
“Do you think members of the Bush Administration are telling the truth, are mostly telling the truth but hiding something, or are they mostly lying?
Like a Mad magazine fold-in, the abbreviated question completely changed the picture. By falsely presenting the question thus, prisonplanet.com completely twisted the data, making the 84% figure apply to something it never really applied to.
This I tried to explain to Sportsman, without much luck.
Me to him:
Sportsman, again you have misinterpreted information. You may be a little shocked to learn that the full question in that poll was as follows:
“When it comes to what they knew prior to September 11th, 2001, about possible terrorist attacks against the United States, do you think members of the Bush Administration are telling the truth, are mostly telling the truth but hiding something, or are they mostly lying?”
As you can see, this is a completely different question to the one you sent me. Absolute apples and oranges. The article you sent me took the 84% figure and applied it to a question of their own making. In short, they invented their own truth. Or should I say, their own falsification.
Imagine if someone pulled the same trick on you. Imagine if someone asked: “Do some people in your sport cheat? And imagine of 84% of people answered “yes” and I then twisted that to say that “84% of people believe that you cheated”.
It would be a blatant lie. But that lie would be repeated. Just like all those 9/11 conspiracy theories.
A final point. I must confess I found that whole article a little disturbing, in particular the paragraph that read:
“We have not taken the country back yet and the cabal that has taken control of the government continues to systematically use 9/11 and the war on terror as an excuse to destroy the Constitutional foundations of law and order in America.”
Sportsman, when you start getting into the territory of mythical organisations controlling the government like puppets, I’m afraid you instantly destroy even your flimsiest shreds of credibility. You’ve probably got yourself the makings of a decent Dan Brown novel, though.
Cheers.
The new memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, for Flight 93 which went down in a field there. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP
The new memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, for Flight 93 which went down in a field there. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFPSource:AFP
Him to me:
Anthony,
We will just have to agree to disagree.
Regards,
Sportsman
Me to Him:
Perhaps it’s that stubbornness which made you such a fine athlete. I hope it serves you well in the rest of your life.
Cheers.
A WORD TO ALL YOU conspiracists out there, and others. I will personally be uploading your comments today in the interests of free speech, which we all hold dear. By all means debate the content of this article. But keep the tone civil or your comments go in the cyberbin. Cheers — Ant Sharwood.
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