 Originally Posted by memeticverb
Blah...blah..blah. What a joke! UM, Im starting to wonder if you are a computer bot that randomly spits out redundant lines of half-baked thought. Your posts are getting quite ironic.
I did in fact refer you directly to the fallacy you made, which was of the form, "Because there are not X number of experts making a public statement B, that therefore B is untrue." This is a non sequitur (meaning the conclusion does not follow from the premise), combined with an appeal to unbelief (few people believe A, therefore A is false.) And yes, fallacies can be combined to form ultra fallacies!
You committed a similar fallacy by exclaiming that one must be a demolitions expert in order to understand the most basic characteristics of controlled demolition as seen in WTC7.
And you have also made a factual error in claiming that Popular Mechanics somehow constitutes an expert opinion. The best they could do with the article on 911 was obtain a list of experts without any explanation of what evidence or research these experts provide to substantiate their inclusion in the article. Yes, this is an appeal to authority.
And just now you committed your favorite fallacy again by saying that because I am not "one of the experts who reads Popular Mechanics" that I am therefore not in a position to critique it. Seriously, given your astounding repetition of the same errors of reasoning its hard to believe you are being honest in debating at all.
Youtube: Popular Mechanics Caught Lying
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"In the case of Popular Mechanics, we see people being quite openly deceptive in their strong support of the Bush Administration's terror story. In their book they promote false claims that the government no longer supports, including the Pancake Theory. They also promote other, more ridiculous ideas including the claim that massive damage was done to the basement levels of a WTC tower by a bolus of jet fuel that meandered its way through several elevator shafts in the jogged elevator system, moving carefully around the elevators themselves and waiting all the while to explode in the sub-basements over 90 stories below. Additionally, PM repeats the false and ludicrous claim that the buildings were designed for airliner impacts, but not for jet fuel fires. In fact, John Skilling, the actual chief engineer of the WTC, made it clear in 1993 that jet fuel fires were considered in the structural design.[19]"...
I said you didn't tell me specifically what the fallacy was. You told me the premise and conclusion involved in the supposed fallacy, but not the actual fallacy. Your explanation shows that you have not been reading very carefully. Look again...
 Originally Posted by Universal Mind
I said there are some. But I am talking about social phenomena that involve the masses. If you can figure out the demolition stuff, then every engineer, demolitionist, and construction foreman and supervisor in the world would have understood it in September of 2001. A two minute bar room conversation would result in every one of those people in the world knowing that the government's explanation is incorrect. That would turn into the biggest news story ever. I don't see any way around that. It would be like the government explaining how somebody died and using false medical science in the explanation. The entire medical community would pick up on that in a matter of days, and from there the whole world would know. So if the medical community at large doesn't do that, it means people posting in this thread so far generally would not have some keen understanding of any medical falsehoods the government is using. Think about that. We are talking about the biggest news event ever, and one that is at the root of a war my country is involved in. If there were construction/demolition falsehoods being used by the government that you and Memeticverb and others in this thread understand, how in the world would that not be getting screamed out by the masses of the actual experts? You're saying it, but they aren't? I don't come anywhere near seeing how that makes sense.
 Originally Posted by Universal Mind
You are still misunderstanding my point. I am not saying popular belief means truth. I am saying that truth that is so accessible and easy to understand that even regular Joes on a lucid dreaming forum site can understand it will be understood by the masses of experts, and when that happens in the type of evil situation we are talking about and it is the biggest news story of all time, the expert chatter would be the loudest sound in the world. It is about a social phenomenon that is not happening, not that popular belief automatically means truth. If what you are saying about stuff that is so building construction 101 is true, experts who disagree with it should be very rare. I don't know what exact number I would put on it, but it would be something in the insignificant zone. Experts are often wrong, but not about stuff that is this easy for every single one of them. We are not talking about rocket science or brain surgery principles that are debatable among people who understand those things. We are talking about no-brainer stuff for people who understand the basics. Something like what you are saying would be huge. And why would the government lie about something so easy for the experts to figure out in the biggest news story in history?
So if you think more clearly, you will see that my point is about social phenomena, not the automatic correctness of experts in all situations. But I also do believe that experts understand the mechanics of building collapse better than any of us. That includes Popular Mechanics. I can see why Bush haters who make up conspiracy theories would hate Popular Mechanics for calling bullshit on them. You seem to hate them for the same reason. Still, my main point is that the lack of social phenomena that in fact are not happening does illustrate that the bizarre conspiracy you claim happened did not happen. I made other arguments you have been ignoring.
 Originally Posted by Universal Mind
Again... Who could have possibly been flying the airplanes? What suicide terrorists would be willing to die for Bush? Doesn't it make much more sense that they were suicide bombers dying for Allah and attacking their #1 enemy? The latter is so much more plausible.
 Originally Posted by Universal Mind
Imagine how hard it would be to pull that off. Plenty of workers on the planes would know the pilots aren't there. Air traffic control would know that they aren't talking to the pilots. People working on the runway would look inside the airplanes and see that pilots are in there. Maintenance workers would see that the cockpit has some crazy extra equipment in it. There is no way the government could pull that off without a lot of people noticing.
And I expressed agreement where Half/Dreaming elaborated on the last one.
 Originally Posted by Half/Dreaming
What about the phone calls from Flight 93. We know there was a hostile takeover.
Do you get it yet? Counter away.
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