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...support his theory, Meyssan plays up factual oddities or gray areas surrounding the attacks--a skeptical focus facilitated by secrecy rules imposed by the investigations. He notes that no film footage of the Pentagon explosion exists, and regards eyewitness testimony of the crash as suspicious, contradictory or flatly incredible. He similarly argues that the photos offer no evidence of the debris typical of a plane crash (discounting expert explanations that the violence of the impact and heat of the explosion caused virtual atomization of the jet) and says the area of destruction to the Pentagon is impossibly small, given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The French Correction: America Behind 9/11! | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...support his theory, Meyssan plays up factual oddities or gray areas surrounding the attacks - a skeptical focus facilitated by secrecy rules imposed in the ongoing investigations. He notes that no film footage of the Pentagon explosion exists and regards eyewitness testimony of the crash as suspicious, contradictory or flatly incredible. He similarly argues that the photos offer no evidence of the debris typical of an airplane crash (discounting expert explanations that the extreme violence of the impact and heat of the explosion caused virtual atomization of the jet), and says the area of destruction to the Pentagon is impossibly small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conspiracy Theory | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...Religion is about where we derive our moral truths and the meaning of it all, and science is about the factual world as best as we can grasp it, they’re just different things, you can’t translate one into the other. Americans get so hung up on religion...Something like 80% of Americans testify that their conventional form of belief in a supreme being is essential to their view of life. I guess if that’s what they say, that’s what they believe...

Author: By Tiffany I. Hsieh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A History of Life | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

Because of Wiley’s research on infectious diseases, Bold said that a connection between his disappearance and fears of bioterrorism is “conceivable but not supported by objective evidence. There is not a factual basis to make [the connection] anything more than speculation...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt and Elisabeth S. Theodore, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: In Memphis, Hunt for Wiley Continues | 11/27/2001 | See Source »

...began the arduous process of authenticating the manuscript. He explained that his verification process entailed “lining up” the events, times and places in the text and comparing them to known historical facts. If the purported origin of the text is genuine, the textual and factual details “will look like mirror images,” he said...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates Acquires Slave’s Novel | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

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