At Hell's Handmaiden, there's a one-sentence post that says, "Not all conspiracy theorists are easily brushed aside as crazy." This sentence links to a Washington Post article on a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.
Now, the fascinating thing about this post is that it pronounces a position reasonable solely on the basis of a favorable WaPo article. The Post also wrote a favorable article on creationist and HIV-denier Philip Johnson. Is that evidence that his position is reasonable?
Actually, though, the article isn't too favorable. On pages 4-5 debunk one major claim of the movie Lose Change, that some supposed hijackers are still alive.
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The German paper der Spiegel dubunked that "hijackers still alive" meme a couple of years ago in far more detail.
As they noted it was quite an easy to follow chain of events:
1. Hijackers names released
2. People with same names say "hey that's not me"
3. Hijackers photographs released.
4. *Crickets*
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