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" Mark Steyn reviews Debunking 9/11 Myths: &amp;quot;Debunking 9/11 Myths does a grand job of explaining such popular conspiracy-website mainstays as how a 125-foot-wide plane leaves a 16-foot hole in the Pentagon. Answer: it didn&amp;#039;t. The 16-foot hole in the Pentagon&amp;#039;s Ring C was made by the plane&amp;#039;s landing gear. But the problem isn&amp;#039;t scientific, it&amp;#039;s psychological: if you&amp;#039;re prepared to believe that government agents went to the trouble of researching, say, gay rugby player Mark Bingham&amp;#039;s family background and vocal characteristics so they could fake cellphone calls back to his mom, then clearly you&amp;#039;re not going to be deterred by mere facts. As James B. Meigs, the editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics, remarks toward the end of this book, the overwhelming nature of the evidence is, to the conspiratorially inclined, only further evidence of a cover-up: &amp;#039;One forum posting that has multiplied across the Internet includes a long list of the physical evidence linking the 19 hijackers to the crime: the rental car left behind at Boston&amp;#039;s Logan airport, Mohammed Atta&amp;#039;s suitcase, passports recovered at the crash sites, and so on. &amp;#039;HOW CONVENIENT!&amp;#039; the author notes after each citation. In the heads-I-win-tails-you-lose logic of conspiracism, there is no piece of information that cannot be incorporated into one&amp;#039;s pet theory.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; link: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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