Saudi Arabia May Be Tied to 9/11, 2 Ex-Senators Say

[William Seger]

187. WTF? I don't have any problem whatsoever dealing with credible facts.

This is pretty simple: If "conspiracy theorists" HAD any credible facts, they wouldn't be called "conspiracy theorists." By the behavior of "conspiracy theorists" themselves, the term has come to mean someone who religiously believes highly implausible theories about conspiracies WITHOUT good reason. "Conspiracy theorists" start with a conclusion and then try to rationalize it, but usually end up with nothing better than highly dubious claims and personal incredulity. You gave us a perfect example: your disbelief that fire can bring down a steel building, even though that's the exact reason steel buildings are fireproofed, even though people who actually understand structural mechanics say it's possible and that the NIST hypotheses make sense, and even though you can't back up your "impossible" claims with even the semblance of a valid technical argument.

"Conspiracy theorists" believe that all the evidence supporting the "official story" MUST have been faked and all the "real" evidence MUST have been covered up, so not only do they eschew evidence-based reasoning when formulating their conclusion-driven theories, they are absolutely impervious to any attempt to challenge their theories with evidence-based reasoning. And now you want to talk about "inconvenient facts?" Please...

Beats me what you're getting at with that link dump -- apparently nothing relevant to the subtopic you started -- but you jumped into a thread about a legitimate news story to claim that "9/11 truthers" were on the verge of being vindicated. As I said, that is utter nonsense: The "9/11 truth movement" is dead, for all practical purposes, and speaking as someone who has carefully watched its growth and subsequent rot, the reason is obvious to me
: It was built on bullshit from the ground up. The "movement" has accomplished absolutely nothing but to distract attention from the legitimate questions that still remain about the attack, such as this story about possible Saudi support for the terrorists. The "movement" has been far too busy fantasizing about fake hijackings and magical silent explosives planted all over occupied office buildings, and then counting how many gullible people accepted that highly implausible and completely unsubstantiated nonsense as "truth."