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Why I am skeptical about 9/11 truth movement skeptics -

How Skeptics Confronted 9/11 Denialism

by John Ray

...Yet, in just under four years, the 9/11 “truth movement” has ground to a halt. Apart from the fundamental incoherence of their theories, the downfall of the 9/11 denier juggernaut was good old-fashioned skepticism at its finest, the kind that conjures visions of James Randi challenging psychics and faith healers on their home turfs and winning. Skeptics are better at their jobs than they think, and its important to give credit where credit is due.

Staking their fortunes almost solely on Internet-based content may have been the 9/11 deniers’ biggest mistake. What seems like a perfect place for pseudoscience — the Internet is un-edited, without fact-checkers or minimum publishing standards of any kind — also became a perfect place for a rapid-response system of blogs and forums to fight back. Drawing on the freely available technical information from the NIST, FEMA, and academic journals which most colleges let their students access for free, skeptical sites like ScrewLooseChange.blogspot.com and debunking911.com are able to defuse 9/11 denier claims as they arise...

http://www.debunking911.com/

Since I have been preoccupied with other things and not following this story closely I was pleasantly surprised to find out how much both the awareness of the problems with the government reports had grown and how much additional information had been developed to support the need for a truly independent investigation of an event that changed the course of this country's future.

The quote above is pure bull.