Sunday, December 16, 2007

Using History on Trial to connect Holocaust denial and 9/11 conspiracy theorists

A website devoted to debunking 9/11 conspiracies addresses the connections between such conspiracy theorists and my own work on Holocaust deniers, particularly as addressed in my book, History on Trial.

6 comments:

Jeremy Jacobs said...

Interesting stuff D. IMHO, I still think questions need to be asked about 9/11.

James B. said...

Thanks for the link. You have an interesting blog here.

Regarding Jeremy's comment, I just want to make clear that we are not saying that there are not legitimate questions to ask about 9/11. In any large confusing event like this there will be questions to be answered for decades to come. But just as with Holocaust Research, there is a difference between serious academic research, and a bunch of idealogues using their warped interpretations of history to push their agenda blaming the Bush Administration\Illuminati\International Bankers\Zionists for 9/11. History belongs to all of us, and we should not allow any of it to become corrupted.

Hume's Ghost said...

There's a section of Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things that compares Holocaust denial to creationism with a list of tactics common to ideological thinking that readers here would find of interest (I think.)

Jeremy Jacobs said...

The International Bankers aren't doing so well just at the moment!

James B. said...

Shermer's book is an excellant resource. Ironically when I read it I also did a post connecting it to the tactics used by conspriacy theorists.

hockey hound said...

"tactics common to ideological thinking that readers here would find of interest..."

Please describe for me a thought process devoid of ideology, whether salubrious or insalubrious. I would be very interested in hearing about that.

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new." -Henry David Thoreau