Today we are witnessing science denial on steroids as it relates to the Covid pandemic. We have also witnessed the emerging influence of evangelical christian ideas which are clearly also anti science. After 9/11 science denial quickly appeared coming from the 9/11 truth "movement". In both instances the science deniers advance their own professionals and experts... who are lauded as "truth tellers".
It's hard for me to comprehend how intelligent educated people promote unscientific thinking. How can an engineer state that a collapse of the twin towers was impossible without CD? How can they even claim the collapse was at "free fall" or that free fall motion (or near FF) could ONLY mean that there was a CD that destroyed the columns?
A layman does not have the tools to understand a building collapse. They do understand that an explosion can destroyed integrity of a structure. It's not difficult to understand that the layman finds the explosive controlled demolition a good fit for a building collapse. After all.. Tall buildings ARE demolished with explosives and the collapse looks "close enough" to call it a match. For sure, if your observations are not informed my technical knowledge....your mind comes up with an explanation which satisfies them.
We have seen this in how ancient people explain the natural world.
Very few people have seen structural failures and they are extremely rare.
So it's understandable how laymen can be misled as well as misunderstand what they saw.
What is MORE troubling and to me inexplicable are those who ARE educated and CAN understand and refuse to... or reject reason. Witness David Chandler or Gage or McCoy and so on. Why are they deluded? And why are they promoting a false narrative?
It's hard for me to comprehend how intelligent educated people promote unscientific thinking. How can an engineer state that a collapse of the twin towers was impossible without CD? How can they even claim the collapse was at "free fall" or that free fall motion (or near FF) could ONLY mean that there was a CD that destroyed the columns?
A layman does not have the tools to understand a building collapse. They do understand that an explosion can destroyed integrity of a structure. It's not difficult to understand that the layman finds the explosive controlled demolition a good fit for a building collapse. After all.. Tall buildings ARE demolished with explosives and the collapse looks "close enough" to call it a match. For sure, if your observations are not informed my technical knowledge....your mind comes up with an explanation which satisfies them.
We have seen this in how ancient people explain the natural world.
Very few people have seen structural failures and they are extremely rare.
So it's understandable how laymen can be misled as well as misunderstand what they saw.
What is MORE troubling and to me inexplicable are those who ARE educated and CAN understand and refuse to... or reject reason. Witness David Chandler or Gage or McCoy and so on. Why are they deluded? And why are they promoting a false narrative?
via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/3Ca5sqs
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