Last Thursday, 50 people were killed when a commercial airliner (Colgan Flight 3407) crashed in Clarence Center, a suburb of Buffalo, New York State. Through a savage twist of fate, one of the deceased was Beverly Eckert, who was widowed as a result of the …
Michael Ruppert is an ex-detective with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), who claims that he was drummed out of the force in 1978 because he had uncovered evidence of CIA involvement in narcotics trafficking. His proudest boast is that he blocked the Senate’s confirmation …
Uh-huh. Charlie Brooker writes today about a new TV station crammed full of conspiracy theories, Edge Media TV, which broadcasts programmes with titles like Question Everything and Hidden Agenda, and a talkshow called Esoteria, which according to the host is “a SHOW, not a PROGRAMME …
My Counterknowledge post last month elicited some responses from “truthers”, with varying degrees of ineptitude. One, a certain Stewart Bradley, posted a “rebuttal” online with four follow-up questions which I thought was worthy of a response. Mr Bradley writes for a website which is ostensibly …
Photo: macten (CC) Last month, Counterknowledge.com kindly published my post discussing the manner in which the propagators of 9/11 conspiracy theories and their adherents – the so-called ‘truthers’ – operate, with particular emphasis on their disclaimer that they are “just asking questions”. Just for a …
One of the most amusing features of the so-called “9/11 Truth Movement” is a tragic, desperate search for evidence suggesting its theories are gaining mainstream support. “Troofers” believe that the 11 September 2001 terrorist atrocities in New York and Washington were an inside job, orchestrated by the …
“In my life,” Deepak Chopra told The Observer in an interview earlier this year, “nothing goes wrong.” Proof of the contrary swiftly followed, however, when Chopra was squeezed into CNN’s coverage of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Exactly why CNN asked Chopra to appear on a news segment …
The arrest of Dr Fredrick Toben must be giving Holocaust deniers sleepless nights. Toben was taken into custody by British police last week under an EU arrest warrant issued by the German authorities. He is accused of publishing material online “of an anti-semitic and/or revisionist …
As Will points out, Charlie Brooker has had the temerity to take the piss out of September 11 conspiracy theorists in the Guardian. As a result, the paper’s 9/11 brigade have had a collective aneurysm. Here’s a quote from Brooker: It’s hard enough to successfully operate …
You really must not miss this hysterical article by Charlie Brooker at Guardian.co.uk about 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Just occasionally, Brooker hits the spot. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! the free bees tell you the …