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Monday, March 17, 2008 12:00 AM

How photos support your own "reality"

Why do 9/11 deniers see an alternative story in pictures of the attacks? Because we all interpret images according to our biases.

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  • Monday, March 17, 2008 08:54 AM

    100 more topics for Farhad

    Now that Farhad has positively absolutely solved the 911 problem by his brilliant and scathing analysis of the weakest conspiracy theory in the book, and his amazing insights on cognition, perhaps he could talk about the 100 videos from the Pentagon surveillance cameras that all clearly show a plane crashing into the building. As a bonus he could talk about the gas station video and the one from the hotel that the FBI confiscated.

    Oh wait. We can't see those. It's a secret. National Security!!!!

    "I've filmed there before down at the Pentagon-- before 9/11-- there's got to be at least 100 cameras, ringing that building, in the trees, everywhere. They've got that plane coming in with 100 angles. How come with haven't seen the straight-- I'm not talking about stop-action photos, I'm talking about the video. I want to see the video; I want to see 100 videos that exist of this,"

    Michael Moore

    Tell me I did not see what I saw. Then tell me I don't know what I know.

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