Livewire82 said:
Ok, but they are comparable in other ways...
as with Covid, people employ appeals to authoritarianism via consensus to shut down dialogue, i.e., 'the science', 'trust the experts', or your phrase, '99% of engineers with functioning brain cells'. Anyone who questions even just one of the multitude of inconsistencies of either narrative tends to be treated as either a heretic, dumb, and/or tinfoil hat wearer.
I don't claim know everything about what happened on that day. There are multiple -often conflicting- logical explanations for the different events. As with Covid, there is NOT consensus - other than the illusion of if forced from the top down. There is also not a narrative I'm committed to defending. I think blind obedience to any narrative for any event, be it the popular state-sanctioned one or Alex Jones', is neither virtuous nor patriotic.
However, anyone -regardless of their credentials- who defaults to the NIST explanation for how 2 planes collapsed 3 buildings into their footprints as if that is the most rational and normal explanation is the same to me as a doctor who cites 'the science' or the cdc to explain why healthy people are killing grandma so they need face diapers and infinite gmo mystery cocktails to live in society. 2 different forms of Scientism, not science IMO.
Let's remember, also...
ALL of these theories on how the towers fell are CONSPIRACY THEORIES, even the official story. Every one of these theories is based on video of 9/11 and maybe some physical samples left over from the scene. NIST did not investigate 9/11 until years later, well after the crime scene had been cleaned up.
In NIST's first report, they ignored tower 7 totally. They were forced to add the tower 7 "findings" a year later.
In doing this investigation, NIST, a goverment agency, was well aware that the government they worked for had already come to a conclusion about what happened. In fact, that government was fighting a war in 2 foreign countries based on a certain conclusion.
Most people on this board have a healthy skepticism of the government when it is charged with investigating itself, but not in this case. The fact that NIST concluded EXACTLY what its own government concluded is not surprising at all. Their conspiracy theory involves bin Laden, 19 hijackers, and 2 magical planes that took down 3 skyscrapers.
It is no more or less scientific than any other conspuracy theory that exists about 9/11. We will never know what happened with full certainty. It's not possible.
Most Americans choose to believe the NIST version. That's fine. I can't do that. Too many strange things don't make sense, especially tower 7, but also so many other things.
Just because I don't believe the official story does not mandate that I have to know exactly what happened and exactly how and why it was done. I don't and probably never will.
Is any of what I've said above crazy? Does this post make me an emotional tinfoil hat wearer?
I just read another thread about how harmful the vaccines are to pregnant and lactating women and their babies. This is the vaccine many were forced to take to keep their jobs.
Forced by the government.
The same government NIST is a part of.