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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.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Monday, March 17, 2008 11:40 AM

    So Farhad's thesis appears to be

    There is no such thing as physics or structural engineering, physical chemistry or thermodynamics. There's only a vague sense of what uninformed laymen express an equally ignorant opinion about. In the meantime I can dial up a You Tube video of an Airforce test, driving an MD F-4 Phantom II on a rocket sled into a concrete block at near supersonic speed and before your very eyes the plane actually evaporates into a cloud of dust leaving zero identifiable parts larger than the point of a ballpoint pen.

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