It wasn’t so long ago that I blogged about Maddox’s great Titanic Conspiracy video, had a chuckle, and moved on.

Then last week, I saw that the BBC had to issue a rebuttal because they’d been inundated with mentals suggested the BBC was in on the plot, and they’ve built this whole bizarre story on the basis that the newsreader said “apparently” instead of “we’ve been told” about some building that fell down 20 minutes later. Interesting reading the comments in that blog to see just how much psychiatric help people need.

I now see WHY the black helicopter brigade are picking on the BBC - I saw a repeat on BBC Four just now of a show broadcast earlier this year as part of The Conspiracy Files season about the 9/11 attack on the USA.
I’m sure there’s a copy on Youtube, but they did a nice job on debunking most of the conspiracies - in particular, one of the theories goes that Flight 93 was shot down. The whole conspiracy is based on the fact that some guy used Google Maps to measure the distance from one side of a lake to the other, came up with 6 miles - even though the map measured the road ROUND the lake, not the flight path distance of a mile!
Here’s a direct link to that particular one, plus all the others in the programme.

This has all been hashed out and thrashed out so many times, but here Alex Jones from Infowars on a rant

Here’s a Youtube Video which attempts to debunk popular mechanic’s debunking of loose change

Here’s the editor of Popular Mechanics talking about their debunking of the theories.

Here’s the original conspiracy video, Loose change (See also Wikipedia article)

And here’s a nice hatchet job on the second edition of the above..
Screw Loose Change

Anyway, if you’re able to read this far without needing someone to wipe your drool (Hawking excluded) and shine the tinfoil on your head, you can probably draw your own conclusion - if in doubt, get Occam’s Razor out.

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Thursday, the 4th, 1997.
(Chess in New York city)
Today was arrival day for my brother. On time and complete with passport, we took the subway back to Brooklyn, for a $1.50. After checking into the AYH, we walked from W103rd and Broadway, down to Times Square, from where we caught a subway to the World Trade Centre. It’s easy to underestimate its height, but 107 floors and 58 seconds later, we were gazing out over the most spectacular dusk view of Manhattan. After finishing off a roll of film out on the cold and blustery rooftop, we headed back down to take in a Jazz Club. Wandering past “The Blue Note” ($30 each, thank you), we found ourselves in the small and intimate “Visiones”. Reasonable cover charge, reasonable band, but disappointing to see it so quiet. Remembering the 5:30am start the next morning, we decided to head back at 11pm stopping back by Times Square again, and wandering past the Radio City Music Hall, where the MTV VMA’a were being held. Arriving quietly back around midnight, we set our alarms for 5:30am…

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