Why the 9/11 Commission Only Fueled Conspiracy Theories
I take great umbrage at Quassim Cassam, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick in Coventry, who, writing in Aeon, blames the intellectual character of conspiracy theorists for what many non-believers call misguided beliefs. I submit that it is a glaring omission of the 9/11 Commission that fueled their beliefs with regard to 9/11; i.e., they never addressed the issue of why the building even came down. This led many to come up with a theory that bombs were planted and were detonated when the planes hit. Professor Cassam has the audacity to blame the shortcomings of intellect on the part of conspiracists. No, Professor, the absence of pertinent official explanations is to blame. I was fortunate to have heard somewhere that the buildings came down because the extreme heat of burning airplane fuel melted or deformed the bolts that were holding onto a floor where a plane "landed." That floor came down or pressed down on the floor below. The bolts holding on to the...