October 22, 2007

Glenn Beck on 9/11 Truth and the Bill Maher infiltration

October 21, 2007

Claim: World Trade Center Fires Were Not Sufficient

Debunked

Claim: WTC Fires Were Not Sufficient To Initiage Global Collapse

October 19, 2007

9/11 Truthers v. Real Time w/ Bill Maher





Click here for The Debunking Directory's complete coverage of Bill Maher's run-in with 9/11 Truthers. It does not get much better than this.

October 18, 2007

History Channel's Engineering Disasters: WTC7

October 15, 2007

Airliner High-Speed Low-Level Passes

Conspiracy--Who Really Runs The World?

Another great resource from Walter Ego's 9/11 Video Blog.

This documentary takes a fresh look at four conspiracy theories, exploring the role of the media in turning what were once fringe opinions into a belief system that has become integral to world events


October 9, 2007

Claim: New American Century's "New Pearl Harbor" Quote Gave Us The Pretext To 9/11



Debunked

October 8, 2007

Claim: Bush Sibling Was In Charge Of WTC's Security



Debunked

October 6, 2007

Claim: Video Evidence Of "Base Smoke" Proves Secondary Explosions In Basement



Debunked

September 27, 2007

Kevin Barret questions Democracy Now's Amy Goodman

September 19, 2007

Informal Interview of Flight 93 Eyewitness

September 15, 2007

Glimpse of North and South Sides of WTC7

WTC1 Core Collapse

September 14, 2007

Claim: Training Exercise MASCAL Is Proof Of Organized Pentagon Attack



Debunked

September 13, 2007

Claim: The Presence Of Molten Metal Suggests Thermite/Controlled Demolition



Debunked

September 12, 2007

CBS Coverage of WTC7 Collapse (w/ added annotations)

September 11, 2007

Claim: There Is No Video Evidence Of A Plane Hitting The Pentagon



Debunked

September 10, 2007

Right after North Tower collapse

Amateur shooting from downtown apartment

Shows panic at the base

Footage after second plane's impact

Warning: Mature language

Shot from apartment of two towers burning

September 8, 2007

Alex Jones and WAC v. Geraldo Rivera




This clip chronicles Alex's arrest and release...

September 7, 2007

Claim: There Is No Definitive Explaination To The Collapse Of WTC7



Debunked

September 4, 2007

Claim: Lawn Gravel Was Quickly Laid At The Pentagon To Cover Incriminating Evidence

September 3, 2007

Claim: Flight 77's Pilot Was Actively Involved In 9/11 Plot



Debunked

September 2, 2007

Claim: WTC Towers Fell At Free-Fall Speed



Debunked

Claim: Evidence Strongly Suggests That The WTC Collapse Was Due To A Controlled Demolition



Debunked

September 1, 2007

BBC: The Conspiracy Files

Steven Jones Interview on Tucker Carlson Show

Pilot of Jet Circling Pentagon Speaks Out



From the BBC's The Conspiracy Files 9/11

August 28, 2007

Claim: There Is A Strong Lack Of Photographic Evidence Of Aeronautical Debris At The Pentagon



Debunked

Mark Roberts Live!--Questions about 9/11

In a program aired live on August 28, 2007, Mark Roberts and Ronald Wieck respond to questions and comments from viewers regarding the events of September 11, 2001.

Issues of 9/11 with Mark Roberts and Ron Wieck

Mark Roberts and Ronald Wieck discuss issues related to the events of September 11, 2001. They discuss the 9-11 Commission and various theories of what happened that day.

August 27, 2007

Comparison of WTC collapses to high explosive blasts

Claim: Firefighters Were Standing In The Impact Zone, Thus The Fires Were Not As Hot As NIST Suggests



Debunked

August 25, 2007

Ground Zero Truthers vs. JREFer CHF

CHF from the JREF Forum:

On Saturday Aug 25th,[2007]... I headed down to Ground Zero for a chat with the truthers. I spent a good hour or so with these folks; some were polite, some were complete punks, and it was difficult at times to not get annoyed at hearing the same claims for the 500th time...

Hat Tip: This YouTube playlist was compiled by Walter Ego at http://911vids.blogspot.com

Claim: In Reality, The WTC Should Have Toppled Over.



Debunked

August 24, 2007

Claim: Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta Witnessed Cheney Give A Direct Stand-Down Order In The PEOCC



Debunked

August 20, 2007

History Channel's 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction

Another great resource from Walter Ego's 9/11 Video Blog.

Produced by NBC News Productions for the History Channel.


The tragedy of the attacks of 9/11 is ours to share; it is ours to remember; it is ours to understand.

Yet, our memory and understanding were clouded almost from the first horrible moment Flight 11 struck the north tower. No-one could believe such a brazen and simple attack could be so tragically effective. Disbelief quickly gave way to conspiracy theories and suspicions. These ideas from the fringe found a fertile breeding ground on the internet and today many of them, through the power of almost infinite repetition, have nearly gained the status of truth.

THE 9/11 CONSPIRACIES: FACT OR FICTION exhaustively examines some of the most persistent of these theories: that the World Trade Center was brought down by a controlled demolition; that a missile, not a commercial airliner, hit the Pentagon; and that members of the U.S. government orchestrated the attacks in hopes of creating a war in the Middle East. Each conspiracy argument is countered by a variety of experts in the fields of engineering, intelligence and the military. The program also delves into the anatomy of such conspiracies and how they grow on the Internet.

Claim: Photographic Evidence Suggests That Planes That Crashed Into The Twin Towers Were Armed With Missiles



Debunked

Don't Know Much About History



It may surprise Alex to learn that Galileo was not persecuted for his beliefs in the round-earth theory but instead the heliocentric theory. Also, Galileo was never "locked up", the man was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life.

This would have been just a typical flub of one's history (which is as American as apple pie), yet Alex likened his controversial beliefs and persecution to one of the most briliant men that had ever lived and did not know why or how he was persecuted.

August 18, 2007

Claim: Evidence Suggests That United 93 Had An Emergency Landing In Cleveland



Debunked

August 17, 2007

Claim: Photographic Evidence Shows That Steel At Ground Zero Was Cut By Thermite



Debunked

Claim: Mysterious Blue Box Contained Sensitive Materials And Was Quickly Removed From Public Eye



Debunked

August 16, 2007

Claim: Pentagon Damage Inconsistent With 757



Debunked

August 13, 2007

9/11 Case Study: World Trade Center

August 11, 2007

9/11 Case Study: United 93

9/11 Case Study: The Pentagon



Debunked

August 9, 2007

Firefighter Predicts WTC7's Fall

August 2, 2007

Bill O'Reilly and Michelle Malkin Discuss O'Donnell/Sheen Claims

August 1, 2007

But Larry Silverstein Said, "Pull It"

July 24, 2007

Les Jamieson and the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative

Les Jamieson, of the Civic Empowerment Network (http://www.nyc911initiative.org), talks about the proposed voter initiative to amend the New York City Charter to create a temporary commission to investigate the events of 9/11

July 18, 2007

Top 5 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Debunked

July 10, 2007

Skeptoid's The Twin Towers: Fire Melting Steel

From Skeptoid: The Twin Towers: Fire Melting Steel (Skeptoid #54) - Was the Oakland freeway collapse corroborating evidence for the official version of the World Trade Center failure, or was it another government lie?

July 7, 2007

ABC News with Rare Glimpse of WTC7's South Side

June 22, 2007

The Ground Zeroes by Mark Roberts

June 12, 2007

NBC Footage of WTC7's Collapse (Slow Motion)

June 5, 2007

Steve Spak's Video of Burning WTC7 and Collapse

June 1, 2007

Purdue University WTC Simulated Study



http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/news_wtc.cfm

May 20, 2007

Loose Change v. Screw Loose Change

Pat from Screw Loose Change goes up against Loose Change's Jason Bermas in this Genesis Communications Network debate. Due to technical difficulties, the debate has trouble getting off the ground. Yet, Bermas and Pat eventually engage in a thought-provoking debate.

May 12, 2007

9/11 Case Study: What really struck the Pentagon?

April 17, 2007

Scholars for 9/11 Truth vs. Mark Roberts

James H. Fetzer, of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, debates Mark Roberts, prominent 9/11 researcher, in this three part debate.





April 11, 2007

Mike Walter, witness of Pentagon explosion, clears up his misquoted record.

How Fast Did WTC7 Fall?

April 7, 2007

MSNBC Footage of WTC7 Collapse And Cite It As 'Expected'

April 1, 2007

911 Mysteries Guide

Written by JREFer, The Doc, this guide takes you frame-by-frame into the distortions of 9/11 Mysteries, which has received glowing reviews from multiple leaders in the Truth Movement.

As written on the 911MysteriesGuide.com website, "This guide is designed to accompany the original film. We do not wish for anyone to read this guide instead of watching the film. We strongly believe that people should view both sides of every issue." Therefore the original 9/11 Mysteries film is found below and at 911WeKnow.com:



Now that you have the film, debunk it frame-by-frame with the 9/11 Mysteries guide in .doc and .pdf formats.

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And for your information, do not miss what WTC eyewitness Rick Siegel has to say about 9/11 Mysteries' intentional doctoring of his contributed raw footage. It is doubles the intrigue when it turns out that Rick subscribes to the "Inside Job" theory, yet he completely condemns the 9/11 Truth Movement. A must read.

March 4, 2007

NBC Cites Warning of WTC7 Collapse

January 16, 2007

Screw 9/11 Mysteries--Video Guide

The following video was produced by The Doc, who also created the 9/11 Mysteries Guide (Document). From the Producer's description: This is a counter-video to the first edition of "9/11 Mysteries". Using their own video and words, "Screw 9/11 Mysteries" aims to point out not only the bad science used in the film, but also the several accounts of lying, quote mining, tricky editing and strawman arguments.



The following disclaimer was attached to the video: There may be some grammatical errors in this video. Everything was spell-checked but I can't promise anything

January 1, 2007

WTC7 Lies

WTC 7 Lies (Word .DOC format, smaller .PDF version available here but beware, some links don’t work) --

From the Guide:

“Did firefighters abandon their fallen brothers to help real estate developer Larry Silverstein demolish a skyscraper?Conspiracist Alex Jones and other 9/11 “Truth Movement” leaders gather at Ground Zero and accuse Silverstein of murder and FDNY heroes of heinous crimes, lies and cover-ups.Do their claims stand up to examination?”

109 pages, .Doc

December 19, 2006

Kevin Barret v. Bill O'Reilly

December 14, 2006

Loose Change v. Mark Roberts

In this debate, prominent 9/11 conspiracy theorists Jason Bermas and Dylan Avery, the brains behind Loose Change (http://www.LooseChange911.com), meet prominent 9/11 debunker Mark Roberts, author of "Loose Change Guide." Ronald Wieck, a well informed 9/11 debunker, hosts.



December 9, 2006

WTC Truther v. Mark Roberts

Believe me when I say that this video is very reassuring in two aspects. 1) It goes to show that "leaders" of the movement are in the dark to what the "official story" of the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers woudl be and 2) It goes to show that a Truther is not helplessly lost when it comes to evidence and reason. Though I do not believe that we have an official conversion here, but Mark does a great job in challenging the lies that this young man has been told about the official story.


November 10, 2006

Southpark Reveals That 9/11 Was An Inside Job...Or, At Least The Truth Movement Is

!Warning: Extremely mature language and images! (I mean, it is Southpark for crying out loud.)

The following clip has been annotated by YouTube's ClunkityClunk4Truth but was originally aired on Southpark's 10th Season. The full episode is here.

Note that I post this film with much hesitation. I think Southpark is morally disgusting and an unintelligent attempt at humor. However, the character in this clip's constant "REALLY?!?!?!" is the theme of The Directory's Logic section.

November 1, 2006

Internet Detectives' Guide of Loose Change

http://emptv.com/research/loose-change

From the Internet Detectives: Loose Change is a video that examines the attacks of September 11, written and narrated by Dylan Avery. Originally fiction, Avery decided to present it as a documentary after further research. The video received attention on the internet, and a second edition was produced which contained additional information but omitted some information from the first video. A recut of the second edition was later produced, with minor changes and corrections. This page will address issues presented in all three videos, which are freely available online.

October 13, 2006

James Fetzer v. Bill O'Reilly

September 28, 2006

James Fetzer v. Hannity & Colmes

September 23, 2006

Screw Loose Change: The Video Guide

The following film is by Mark Iradian and serves as a debunking guide to Loose Change: 2nd Edition. Iradian's website may be found here.




Mark has made this disclaimer in other venues: There are some grammatical and spelling errors in this video due to lack of proofreading on my part. I greatly apologize for this.

September 19, 2006

Flight 175: As The World Watched

Flight 175: As The World Watched

September 11, 2006

Beware the Truthers. Don't Ignore Them.

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/Column.aspx?ContentGuid=10a14922-33ff-4ab1-917f-c91980d3f32b&page=full&comments=true

Mary Katharine Ham TownHall.com

Enough of the 9/11 Conspiracies, Already!

http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx091106

Matthew Rothchild The Progressive

BYU takes on a 9/11 conspiracy professor

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060911/11conspiracy.htm

Will Sullivan U.S. News & World Report

A Conspiracy Against Us All

9/11 Truthers Discard The Truth
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mjc2MjZmOTI2YzM0M2ZjOTUwZWU4YWRiMjRlOTVjZGM=

Andrew Kline National Review Online

9/11 Conspiracy Theories: The 9/11 Truth Movement In Perspective

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/06-09-11.html
In this week’s eSkeptic, on the 5th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center, Phil MolĂ© takes a look at the “9/11 Truth Movement” and shares with us his experience attending a weekend conference held in Chicago, organized by 911truth.org.

Phil Mole Skeptic.com

Loose Change v. Popular Mechanics Democracy Now Debate

http://www.democracynow.org/2006/9/11/exclusive_9_11_debate_loose_change

Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11

Another great resource from Walter Ego's 9/11 Video Blog.

Just days after September 11, 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency assured the public that there should be no concern about any health hazards associated with exposure to smoke and debris in lower Manhattan. This disturbing documentary asks whether the EPA's pronouncement was based on science or politics. Now many of the first-responders who risked their lives within that toxic chemical soup are seriously ill or dying. Filmmaker Heidi Dehncke-Fisher and producer Bruce Kennedy reveal how 9/11's latest victims are America's forgotten heroes.


From ‘Is Terrorism A Muslim Monopoly?’ by Dr Zakir Naik

Another great resource from Walter Ego's 9/11 Video Blog.

Loose Change v. Popular Mechanics

September 11, 2001 - five years after the attacks many people are asking questions about what happened on that day in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Websites, articles, books and documentaries have put forward a variety of alternate theories to the government's account of what happened. The most popular of these is a documentary called "Loose Change." Now, a book dealing with many of these theories has just been published by the magazine Popular Mechanics, it's called "Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts." In a Democracy Now! national broadcast exclusive, we host a debate between the filmmakers of Loose Change and the editors of Popular Mechanics on 9/11.

The debate begins at 17:14.

Bob and Bri: What We Saw

The Air Traffic Controllers of 9/11



Another great resource from Walter Ego's 9/11 Video Blog

The Sundance Channel. 57 min. Watch on Google.
First shown on September 11, 2006.

Just days after September 11, 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency
assured the public that there should be no concern about any health hazards
associated with exposure to smoke and debris in lower Manhattan. This disturbing
documentary asks whether the EPA's pronouncement was based on science or
politics. Now many of the first-responders who risked their lives within that
toxic chemical soup are seriously ill or dying. Filmmaker Heidi Dehncke-Fisher
and producer Bruce Kennedy reveal how 9/11's latest victims are America's
forgotten heroes.



PBS' America Rebuilds II

Another great resource from Walter Ego's 9/11 Video Blog.

PBS 53 min. Watch on Guba.

After recapping the recovery since 9/11, Return to Ground Zero, explores how builders, developers and families are working against the odds to move forward. The first year's work brought out the best in Americans and New Yorkers. Return to Ground Zero documents the continued effort in a way that is accurate and sensitive to what's at stake for New York and the nation.

Discovery Channel's Inside The Twin Towers

Another great resource from Walter Ego's 9/11 Video Blog.

YouTube playlist in 13 parts. Originally broadcast 9-11-2006 on the Discovery Channel.

Inside the Twin Towers offers a minute-by-minute explanation of the horror, confusion and the selfless actions on that fateful day. This two-hour docudrama combines gripping recreation with the vivid testimonies of survivors, victims' families, emergency workers and city officials to create an intimate first-hand account of what it was really like inside.

Extraordinary stories include Stanley Priamnath and Brian Park, two men who had never met until that day but whose friendship, faith and steely determination would see them both survive; Jan Demczur, the window cleaner who managed to save the lives of his fellow elevator passengers by unimaginable methods; and the firefighters who bravely entered the Towers - many of whom never returned.


September 8, 2006

Conspiracy theories sully memories of 9/11 victims

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/284271_anticonspire08.html

James Bennett (From Screw Loose Change) Seattle Post-Intelligencer

9/11 conspiracy theorists multiply

Many Americans suspect U.S. government involvement or complicity
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14723997/
Michael Powell WashingtonPost.com

September 7, 2006

'Popular Mechanics' Tackles Sept. 11 Theories

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5782277

Talk of the Nation, Jim Meigs, editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics, talks about a recent article that discredits Sept. 11 conspiracy theories.
Guests:
Bob Goldberg, professor of history at the University of Utah; author of Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America
Jim Meigs, editor in chief of Popular Mechanics

September 6, 2006

Conspiracy Wars By Abby Scott and Ray Rivera

!Warning: Mature Language!

It was this unserious video (with the clip of Roberts debunking the thermite/thermate claim) that made me pursue debunking 9/11 myths as a serious hobby. A terrific glimpse of the debate at Ground Zero.

"It's a strange hobby hanging out with people that hate you, but as long as they keep s****ing on the grave of 3,000 with falsities and bad science --I'll keep annoying and inconveniencing them." --Abby Scott

September 5, 2006

Who really blew up the twin towers?

As the fifth anniversary of 9/11 nears, Christina Asquith finds academics querying the official version of events

The Guardian Christina Asquith

September 4, 2006

The lie that just won't seem to die: Jews behind 9/11

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154526000478&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

RICHARD GREENBERG / JTA

September 3, 2006

Viewing 9/11 From a Grassy Knoll

You won't believe what the conspiracy theorists are claiming-or will you?
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060903/11conspiracy.htm

By Will Sullivan U.S. News & World Report

Why the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Won't Go Away

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1531304,00.html?internalid=AOT_h_09-03-2006_why_the_9/11_co

By LEV GROSSMAN Time
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