The Believing Brain - Michael Shermer [120]
It is obvious that the name “Shermer” will go down in history as meaning “one who lies” or “a shill” or a “stooge.” Example: “That guy was lying.” “Yeah, he’s nothing but a shermer.” Or, “What a shermer he is!” and everyone will know what THAT means. I may start using this “word” immediately in my daily conversations. It certainly applies regarding the so called “article” Shermer wrote about 9/11.
One correspondent identified who he thinks is behind the conspiracy:
The broadcast and print media are almost totally controlled by the Zionist criminals who are behind the evil undertakings of our government. They operate through blackmail, and bribery, and have taken complete control of this government and foreign policy to further their expansion in the middle east.
Sadly, he wasn’t the only one to identify Zionists as conspirators:
Please, accept my cancellation for Scientific American as your 9-11 report is neither scientific nor American but religious and Zionist. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME—another quisling to the Israeli overlords—START THINKING and STOP PROSTITUTING TO YOUR HIGHER POWER.
And this one as well:
Your whitewash on the 9-11 does not work. Your Zionist front guys are treating your readership as fools. I have been a life long subscriber of your magazine and I have all the issues since 1971. I will cancel my subscription due to your treasonous servility to the foreign power (Israel).
Another correspondent fingered me and the magazine as part of the conspiracy:
I’m deeply shocked Scientific American could so obviously discredit its reputation, with such nonsense. Why not run stories about little green men on the moon? I mean, you’ve gone this low, why not go further? Don’t be suprised if the scientific community starts laughing at you, and sales dry up. You can’t publish crap like this AND keep your reputation. Mere pawns for the military-industrial complex—thats what you are.
Here is one equating America with Nazi Germany:
Its so sad to see all our institutions being forced to lie about 9/11. And now you too! Sirs shame on you. Do you not realize this is EXACTLY what happened in Germany in the 1930s. Surely you do.
My 9/11 correspondence died down for a while, until I publicly commented on the Muslim wannabe terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who lit his underwear on fire on a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day, 2009. If all these acts of terrorism are really an “inside job” by the Bush administration, I wrote, why did al-Qaeda issue this statement?: “Be prepared to suffer because the killing is coming and we prepared you men who love death just as you love life and by God’s permission, we will come to you with more things that you have never seen before. Because, as you kill, you will be killed and tomorrow is coming soon. The martyrdom brother was able to reach his objective with the grace of God but due to a technical fault, the full explosion did not take place.” Are we to believe that Abdulmutallab worked for the U.S. government? His own father ratted him out after he was radicalized by Muslim extremists—was that all part of the “inside job” as well? What was that sewn up in his underwear, the same superthermite that Bush operatives used to bring down the World Trade Center buildings with planted explosive devices?
Undaunted, and powered by conspiratorial agenticity, the 9/11 truthers fired back.6 One told me to
Wipe the smile off your smug gob right now Michael Shermer. Whatever may have happened on Xmas day still doesn’t change the fact that two of the highest buildings in the world