Spare Any Loose Change?

There’s an article in today’s Guardian about the film Loose Change. If you don’t know Loose Change is a ‘documentary’ concerning the supposed conspiracy over 9/11.

The Guardian article starts off making me think that perhaps the 3 guys who made this film may have something. They might have uncovered some evidence that suggests that 9/11 was an inside job. They don’t and they haven’t.

Some of their theories are just plain ridiculous. Like all the best conspiracy nuts they cherry pick bits and pieces of the story that they like the sound of and dismiss large chunks as Government lies.

A website called Screw Loose Change was set up to take some of the theories apart and the people at Popular Mechanics spent a long time researching key conspiracy arguments in order to disprove them.

I like to be sceptical about stuff like this and I’d be interested to hear any kind of conspiracy theory that could be proved. However it’s sad that people are spending so much time and getting so much attention on peddling misguided nonsense, unqualified theories posing as facts and out and out lies.

Popular Mechanics offered this quote from Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York that I liked. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. He is not entitled to his own facts."