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[3] David Ray Griffin, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, Authorized Edition (W. W. Norton, 2004).

[4] The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaption, by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon (Barnes and Noble, 2006).

[5] The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. Interlink Books, 2005.

[6] David Dunbar and Brad Reagan, eds., Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts (New York: Hearst Books, 2006).

[7] This book, in one of its many self-congratulatory claims, said on its back cover: "With more than 100 years of expertise in science and technology, Popular Mechanics is ideally equipped to research the evidence behind [charges that the U.S. government orchestrated the attacks of 9/11]." Readers previously familiar with Popular Mechanics (PM) were thereby led to believe that this book on 9/11 was put out by people whose expertise and trustworthiness had been demonstrated over the previous decades. However, in the months just prior to the publication of the article on which the Popular Mechanics book was based, a radical change in PM's personnel was orchestrated by then president of Hearst Magazines, Cathleen P. Black. Black is married to Thomas E. Harvey, who had worked for the CIA, the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Information Agency.

Scholar Christopher Bollyn, describing this Black-orchestrated change at Popular Mechanics as "a brutal take-over," wrote: "In September 2004, Joe Oldham, the magazine's former editor-in-chief, was replaced by James B. Meigs. In October, a new creative director replaced PM's 21-year veteran who was given ninety minutes to clear out of his office." In each of the following six months, Bollyn further reported, three or four more people were similarly dismissed.[7] Accordingly, the suggestion that this book about 9/11 reflects PM's long tradition of expertise is misleading. [Extracted from Debunking 9/11 Debunking (see next note,]

[8] David Ray Griffin, Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory (Interlink Books, 2007).

[9] See, for example, Terry Allen ("The 9/11 Faith Movement,"

In These Times, 11 July 2006); Alexander Cockburn ("The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts," ZNet, 20 September 2006); David Corn ("When 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Go Bad," AlterNet, 1 March 2002); Noam Chomsky ("Chomsky Dismisses 9/11 Conspiracy Theories As 'Dubious'" Rense.com, 13 December 13); "Chomsky Dismisses 9/11 Conspiracy Theories As 'Dubious'" Rense.com, December 13, 2006); Matthew Rothschild, "Enough of the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories, Already," The Progressive, 18 September 2006); and Matt Taibbi "The Idiocy Behind the '9/11 Truth' Movement," AlterNet, 26 September 2006).

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David Ray Griffin is professor emeritus at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University, where he taught philosophy of religion and theology, with special emphases on the problem of evil and the relations between science and (more...)
 
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