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NPOV

Can someone at least attempt to give this a NPOV? I'm no conspiract nut but this the article is blatently anti-Loose Change. The Anti-Conservapedia 08:11, 31 August 2007 (CDT)

Eh. We're not Wikipedia. Hell, there isn't even a "-pedia" in the name of this site. Have you noticed that things at rationalwiki tend to have a slight bias against things that aren't rational? DickTurpis 08:16, 31 August 2007 (CDT)

I wonder have you actually seen the film. Some of the charges they level are insane, but the use of explosives in the World Trade Center has not being adequately refuted. The Anti-Conservapedia 08:28, 31 August 2007 (CDT)

Yeah, I saw the film a year ago, so my memory of it is not perfect. I almost thought it was a comedy. The scary thing was that some people I was with (who I would otherwise consider intelligent human beings) bought the whole thing hook, line, and sinker. But in a way you're right, they have not 100% disproved that there were no explosives in the towers. Nor did they 100% disprove that magical fairy dust combined with unicorn blood created a weakening of girders, leading to the collapse. People saw puffs of smoke coming out of the windows just below the collapsing floors, and instead of considering that the interior structure was collapsing slightly sooner than the exterior, they assumed it was a demolition. People want to believe that it was a Bush conspiracy plot, so they believe it was a Bush conspiracy plot. DickTurpis 08:40, 31 August 2007 (CDT)

I have not seen the film - but we are not NPOV. We are skeptical point of view. see RationalWiki:Project Whitewash/What is a RationalWiki article--Bob_M (talk) 08:55, 31 August 2007 (CDT)

Competency

Personally, I don't believe BushCo would be competent enough to pull off something like this. --Gulik 11:58, 31 August 2007 (CDT)

That's pretty much the thought that made me wander out of the 9/11 conspiracy ranks. Now, I do think that if they knew about it a bit, sometime before, they might have been dumb enough to let it happen. But not if they knew a lot about it. And as you say, there is no evidence that BushCo is any good at doing much besides manipulating elections and, to an extent, public opinion. I also got bored of the 9/11 nuts when looking at a photograph of a plane wheel at the pentagram that said it wasn't the same as a 767 (or whatever) wheel. Oddly enough, it planely was the same object. My favorite all time 'theory' was the one that involved four dummy planes full of barrels of explosive fuel, swapping them below radar, and ditching the real planes in the ocean. Yah. human^{be in} 18:39, 1 September 2007 (CDT)

Arlington

"While they denied that planes crashed into Arlington and Shanksville" - shouldn't the "Arlington" reference be the Pentagon? Or, (doh) is the Pentagon in Arlington? I thought it was in W DC? ħuman 15:42, 13 October 2008 (EDT)

The Pentagon is in Arlington, near Arlington National Cemetery. Secret Squirrel 15:53, 13 October 2008 (EDT)

Ah, ok. Should we make that clearer in the article? Since that's the first mention of Arlington, (and Shanksville) it forces the reader into a bit of a geographic brainstretch. ħuman 15:59, 13 October 2008 (EDT)