People believe in conspiracy theories because the truth "is either too simple or too remote," says sociologist Clifton Bryant of Virginia Tech University, who has made a study of "deviant logic" and behavior.
"We're always ready to believe something about which we know nothing,"
Fits the NIST and OCT believers to a T.
The 9/11 truth critics have nothing but ad hominem arguments.
Both sides of the issue have conspiracy theories.
9-11 was a conspiracy whether a person believes that it was an inside job or that a handful of Arabs outwitted the entire intelligence apparatus of the Western world and the operational response of NORAD and the US Air Force.
For one side to call the other conspiracy theorists is the pot calling the kettle black.
The 9/11 Truth movement was not created by bloggers ranting on their web sites. It was created by professional architects and engineers some of whom are known for having designed steel high rise buildings.
It was created by US Air Force pilots and commercial airline pilots who are expert at flying airplanes.
The professionals and the scientists are speaking from the basis of years of experience and expert knowledge. Moreover, the scientists are speaking from the basis of careful research into the evidence that exists.
When a physicist proves that Building 7 (the stories not obscured by other buildings) fell at free fall speed and NIST has to acknowledge that he is correct, you can bet your life that the physicist is correct.
When the architects, engineers, and scientists speak, they offer no theory of who is responsible for 9-11. They state that the known evidence supports
neither the NIST reports nor the 9-11 Commission Report. They say that the explanation that the government has provided is
demonstrably wrong and that an investigation is required if we are to discover the truth about the event.
It is not a conspiracy theory to examine the evidence and to state that the evidence does not support the explanation that has been given.
On the one hand there are
credentialed experts who demonstrate problems in the official account, and on the other hand there are
non-experts who denounce the experts as conspiracy kooks.
The experts are cautious and careful about what they say, and their detractors have thrown caution and care to the wind. That is the state of the debate.
The "Critics" of 9/11 Truth. Do They Have a Case?
That is the position of the 9-11 Truth movement.