Sunday, December 22, 2013

how we deal with the 9/11 conspiracy (Facebook 9/2/11)

September 3, 2011 at 1:52pm

WK: I haven't had a lot of time to consider conspiracy theories. Sometimes the obvious explanation is good enough. People flew airplanes into the buildings and they collapsed.

LL: Yes, this explanation works for me, too, but that's largely because I have a paranoid mistrust of architects and construction companies.

"The explanatory power of an American conspiracy is, I think, rather low, because all this might easily have occurred without an American conspiracy." (Wayne Kraft)

"Whenever possible, substitute constructions out of known entities for inferences to unknown entities." (Bertrand Russell)

"Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be adequately explained by incompetence." (Hanlon's Razor)

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