freakazoid
12-09-2006, 02:04 AM
Click here to hear the 911 Podcast...
http://podcast.seti.org/media/AWA_06-11-29.mp3
America loves conspiracies. Many people think that JFK was the victim of a large-scale assassination plot. Others believe the U.S. military has hidden alien artifacts at some remote, desert locale. Now, recent polling results indicate that a substantial fraction of the public suspect that the calamity that befell the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 was at least partly due to a cabal of government and industry interests. An inside job, in other words. We hear the arguments from the author of a web site claiming government involvement in 9/11, and from several experts about how plausible this conspiratorial view might be, and why unconventional theories are so quickly embraced. Also, Phil Plait gives the low-down on one of the most looney of conspiracy theories: the claim that astronauts never set foot on the moon.
It’s Skeptical Sunday, but don’t take our word for it.
Guests:
Michael Berger (http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20061014120445472#steering), spokesperson for the organization 911Truth.org (http://911truth.org/)
James Bennett (http://www.blogger.com/profile/6018539), author of web blog “screw loose change (http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/)”
Najib Abboud, Associate Principal at Weidlinger Associates (http://www.wai.com/Corp/index-corp.html), New York
Nicholas Lemann (http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/faculty/lemann.asp), Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, New York
Mark Fenster (http://www.law.ufl.edu/faculty/fenster/), Associate Professor of Law a the University of Florida, and author of Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (http://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Theories-Secrecy-American-Culture/dp/081663243X/sr=8-1/qid=1164302241/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-3595896-6099650?ie=UTF8&s=books)
Phil Plait (http://www.badastronomy.com/info/whois.html), astronomer and author of the book and website www.badastronomy.com (http://www.badastronomy.com/)
http://podcast.seti.org/media/AWA_06-11-29.mp3
America loves conspiracies. Many people think that JFK was the victim of a large-scale assassination plot. Others believe the U.S. military has hidden alien artifacts at some remote, desert locale. Now, recent polling results indicate that a substantial fraction of the public suspect that the calamity that befell the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 was at least partly due to a cabal of government and industry interests. An inside job, in other words. We hear the arguments from the author of a web site claiming government involvement in 9/11, and from several experts about how plausible this conspiratorial view might be, and why unconventional theories are so quickly embraced. Also, Phil Plait gives the low-down on one of the most looney of conspiracy theories: the claim that astronauts never set foot on the moon.
It’s Skeptical Sunday, but don’t take our word for it.
Guests:
Michael Berger (http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20061014120445472#steering), spokesperson for the organization 911Truth.org (http://911truth.org/)
James Bennett (http://www.blogger.com/profile/6018539), author of web blog “screw loose change (http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/)”
Najib Abboud, Associate Principal at Weidlinger Associates (http://www.wai.com/Corp/index-corp.html), New York
Nicholas Lemann (http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/faculty/lemann.asp), Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, New York
Mark Fenster (http://www.law.ufl.edu/faculty/fenster/), Associate Professor of Law a the University of Florida, and author of Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (http://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Theories-Secrecy-American-Culture/dp/081663243X/sr=8-1/qid=1164302241/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-3595896-6099650?ie=UTF8&s=books)
Phil Plait (http://www.badastronomy.com/info/whois.html), astronomer and author of the book and website www.badastronomy.com (http://www.badastronomy.com/)