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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Psychologists Weigh In On 9/11


An article published in U.S. News & World Report (originally written by the Society for Science and the Public) quotes a couple of psychologists, one sociologist and one historian to argue that people who question the government's version of 9/11 are prone to false thinking.

Initially, remember that while most psychologists and psychiatrists are good and honorable, psychologists helped to create the U.S. torture program, and actively participated in it (and see this)

Also, psychologists - such as Freud's nephew Edward Bernays - have been central to propaganda efforts for a century (see this, this and this).

Moreover, many mental health professionals have concluded that the official version of 9/11 is false, and that those who believe the official version suffer from emotional problems or defense mechanisms. For example:

  • Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, as well as Radiology, at Duke University Medical Center D. Lawrence Burk, Jr., MD
  • Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Ruters University Barry R. Komisaruk
  • Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies Ralph Metzner
  • Retired Professor of Psychology at Oxford University Graham Harris
  • Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nebraska and licensed Psychologist Ronald Feintech

38 comments:

  1. Oh Mr. Georgie Washington!

    That was very funny and well put!

    Indeed, it is quite possible for 19 people who do not know one another, except for being towelhead freaks, to wake up on the same morning and decide to hijack the same planes, with the same suicide destinations in mind; some of them to find themselves alive after such event! Doing this kind of stuff, does not require you to 'conspire' to commit a criminal act!; in fact it's part of your job, if you work in the CIA, or Military Intelligence... It falls under 'national security' -- whatever it takes..

    So what does that say about these psychologists? They on the Mockingbird payroll?

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  2. US torture psychologist slaves of war criminal regime are prone to false thinking.

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  3. With a degree in philosophy, and four semesters of logic under my belt, I will be quite happy to debate one of these psychologists.

    'False thinking' -- what a laugh. We have a term for false thinking -- they're called fallacies. And the government loves to use them.

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  4. I'm glad the "official conspiracy" nuts are now the minority.

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  5. So 9/11 Truthers are insane? Please send my disability checks to my home address. I think that about $4,000.00 per month should cover my essential expenses. What doesn't go for rent, food, and carfare can be spent burning 9/11 Truth DVDs such as "9/11 Mysteries" and "Obama Deception" which I shall distribute to all the normal people that I meet.

    A diagnosis of 9/11 Truth is incurable and requires a lifetime of public support, so all you normal people get your checkbooks out and pay your taxes dutifully. You can take comfort in the fact that you are paying for the support of mentally distubed 9/11 Truthers here in the USA, which is a whole lot better than the normal murderers that you have been supporting in the US military, whose job is to slaughter innocent people in foreign countries for the profit of US corporations.

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  6. So 9/11 Truthers are insane? Please send my disability checks to my home address. I think that about $4,000.00 per month should cover my essential expenses. What doesn't go for rent, food, and carfare can be spent burning 9/11 Truth DVDs such as "9/11 Mysteries" and "Obama Deception" which I shall distribute to all the normal people that I meet.

    A diagnosis of 9/11 Truth is incurable and requires a lifetime of public support, so all you normal people get your checkbooks out and pay your taxes dutifully. You can take comfort in the fact that you are paying for the support of mentally distubed 9/11 Truthers here in the USA, which is a whole lot better than the normal murderers that you have been supporting in the US military.

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  7. Anything's true if you can hire enough shills to say it is. Just look at the 'comments' on the *original* article in Science News
    http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/44046#comment_44229

    The author and similar third-raters who hope to acquire fame and fortune by selling out to gangsters would do well to reflect upon the words of a far better psychologist than any of them will ever be:-

    "It is not a sign of a healthy mind to be well-adjusted to a sick society." - R.D.Laing (author of 'The Divided Self')

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  8. They are building a case for involuntary "treatment" of those with 911 denial and conditioning the public to accept incarceration for 'reprogramming' of political dissidents aka USSR. Recall that Alaska has the biggest FEMA camp in the nation- holds over 2 million- and it is a MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY.

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  9. What propaganda. You know, in Russia - if you don't believe everything the state tells you - why, they declare you insane and imprison you to "re-educate you". This piece is Soviet style propaganda: Soviet style use of psychologists to attempt to marginalize political dissidents towards the state.

    9/11 was an inside job. Call me crazy - I believe factual evidence plus even my own eyes seeing Building 7 come down demolition style, etc. 9/11 was an inside job - no matter what these Soviet style psychologists propagandize.

    Actually, this article just shows how sick the MSM and these psychologists really are to use these Soviet style tactics in their hit piece against 9/11 truthers.

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  10. Even though they are not openly saying, the authors of this paper are indirectly implying that "conspiracy theorists" are crazy. If it were not so, then why are psychologists examining "conpspricary theorists" as as group. There are no similar papers on what the profile of "official story believers" is like. Therefore by having this type of examination at all, there are implying that "conspiracy theorists" are some weird, abnormal group.

    Maybe a pschological profile of "official story believers" would be like this:
    - trust authority blindly
    - are gullible about information that comes from official sources
    - are neither curious or nor inquisitive
    - have a negative, unimaginative outlook
    - believe politics work
    - are very unflexible and dogmatic in their beliefs

    If such a paper cam out, how would that make the "official story believers" feel? Not very good I suspect.

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  11. Very well written, thankyou....
    I think some more of U.S. are gonna start looking over the evidence because of this article....
    I have a friend who just can't wrap his head around the idea that this could have happened...a smart guy but its just too much to handle for him i suppose... im sending him a link...

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  12. 9/11 changed the world.It became the rallying cry for fascist government takeover. What they have done in our name is an abomination. It was the day Our Constitution came under direct assault from the wannabe dictators that were in power. All done in the name of "protecting us"from the Taliban. A never ending war on Terror was declared. It's pure genus when one thinks about it. It is a war where as long as there are terrorist in the world which threaten our national security (free trade,NATO and money) a state of emergency will stay in force.This state of emergency that has been renewed by Congress every time it has come up for renewal. By using the Constitutional powers that speak of this state of emergency declaration for times of war in a perverted direction--- (the founding Fathers never intended for it to be used in this fashion )Bush and his league of NWO dreamers (Cheney,Rumsfeld etc.)were able to get rid of Habeas Corpus, install the horrid Patriot Act,torture,illegally detain American citizens,use war/military tribunals instead of our courts and refuse to give over information ordered by our courts,placing themselves above the rule of law, illegally wiretap and commit all manners of evil in We the Peoples name. Please contact Congress and tell them ENOUGH ALREADY with the re-declaration of State of Emergency.
    Also please sign the worldwide petition for a new investigation into 911. Only when the deception of 911 is exposed can we reverse the disturbing trend our never ending War on Terror has wrought. The Truth shall set us free!
    http://world911truth.org/

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  13. Lordy, I haven't read US News & World Report for untold number of years. They are so rife with phony and planted stories, dating back to those '60s Soviet killer-satellite stories, etc. I forget whether Carl Bernstein's 1978 Rolling Stone article included them (when he was writing about all those CIA-paid "journalists" (i.e., paid propagandists), but I'm sure some payments which can be traced back to the Pentagon (via Caymans holding companies) would be suggestive.

    Whenever I've contacted newspaper editors, so-called "debunking experts," etc., they never, ever respond to my presentation of the data (what we non-newsies call "the facts").

    And they wonder why no one bothers reading American (zero content) newspapers anymore.....

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  14. the corrupt, scummy, murerous government is getting oh so desperate to put their 9/11 complicity and TREASON to bed.

    unfortunately, the dam has already burst. It's too late. There will be hangings. Lots of them. Very very soon!!!

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  15. Change the subject to "man-made global warming", and you will see just how silly "scientists" and the media have been for years. I'm guessing, however, that you liberals won't see the parallel though sadly.

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  16. It is of course always a good idea to question the official story on anything. Whatever the minute details of who knew what when and what happened afterward, the main parts of the story are very likely accurate. 19 men hijacked airplanes, after taking flight lessons, and then bashed them into buildings. The idea someone planted explosives as the building was burning, a feat perhaps less than a few dozen people in the world could even pull of with weeks of planning.... Well that is just tinfoil hat, area 51, alien abducted, X-Files crazy. They got very lucky, but that's what happened. Let's all move on

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  17. This website has obviously drank the koolade

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  18. Obviously the people of this website have drank the kool-aid.

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  19. I refuse to even believe that 9/11 happened and I just cross that date off of my calender, resulting in me being several days ahead of everyone else. SUCKERS

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  20. Every single floor of WTC7 was visibly on fire. There are many images and videos showing this fact. There were also multiple civilian and fireman witnesses that stated that the building was missing an entire corner and looked like it was going to fall. The COMMANDER of the firemen stated at the time, and many times thereafter, that the firemen were pulled from the building because there was no way to save it and the danger of collapse made it to dangerous to leave them fighting a losing battle.

    Take the time to read some of the sights debunking the 9/11 myths so many of you believe and, if read with a reasonably open mind, you will realize just how little evidence there is on your side, and how overwhelming the evidence is on the other side. I won't even go into the ludicrous amount of credit you are giving to the government by basically saying they pulled off a conspiracy this grand in scope without getting in any trouble for it. Our government is barely capable of tying its collective shoes every morning, let alone pulling a scheme this huge off without any major hitches.

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  21. I feel sorry for people who hate their country so much that they feel the need to make of fantasies about the US blowing up its own buildings (simultaneous to genocidal Muslims flying plans into them).

    Its been totally debunked by almost all the engineers and physicists who have examined the issue.

    But it would make sense that a bunch of phsychologists and mental health workers would sign onto this kind of delusional hate fest. These fields of studies attract scads of unhinged leftist types. In fact, almost all humanities departments in universities across the nation are run like siege states by leftist trolls who allow only like minded people through the gates.

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  22. ha ha ha. HA. HA HA. thud HAA HAA HAA

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  23. your 9/11 commission member quotes are taken seriously out of context, kind of reflects poorly on your researching skills. The Bob Kerry quotes is by far the worst. Two sentences later he states: "So I'm 100 percent certain that [bin Laden] directed that attack, but am I completely comfortable saying there was no direct Saudi involvement..."

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  24. Hahahahahaha! Funny Article

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  25. Notice most Jewish establisments and professionals stick to the government line-Arabs did the 911 attacks :^(

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  26. Anyone who questions the "official" government conspiracy theory is right on track.

    US News and World report is suffering from false thinking by publishing this NWO pandering nonsense.

    Yeah right, a 757 was vaporized at the pentagon, when a 47 foot fuselage got swallowed up by a 20 foot hole, but they just happened to collect all the dna to verify the passengers. Oh yeah! Oh but wait, there's more! NOTHING hit building 7 and it collapsed into it's own footprint just the other two controlled demolitions....I mean collapses.

    LOL! This article isn't worth the pixels.

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  27. I was in Belgium when it happened, and couldn't get back... so I read everything - every day.

    The story about the Israeli message service was chilling. The fellows who ride bikes in Manhattan were warned to stay away from the World Trade Center that day.

    This story ran for a day in Europe. It was the message service itself who contacted the press because they had been warned.

    Nothing ever came of it.

    These were Jews - warned to stay away.

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  28. Those of us who test reality of what we are told using knowledge grounded in science and physics, are labeled mentally irrational by these psychologists because we are independent enough to get our reality from science rather than a few people in political authority? These particular psychologists should return their Ph.D's and ask for a full and complete refund.

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  29. Both sides are getting harder to believe. Confused! The probability of 1.0 I originally assigned to the officially story, has slipped to .7.

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  30. .. psycholgists can be dumb to you know. A PhD doesn't suddenly make you a genious. I mean come on people, some of these therapists believe that everything comes from the trauma of being born!

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  31. SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE RIGHT WING, MOUTH BREATHING GATE KEEPER OF HIGH TREASON (SEE BELOW)


    Anonymous said...

    I feel sorry for people who hate their country so much that they feel the need to make of fantasies about the US blowing up its own buildings (simultaneous to genocidal Muslims flying plans into them).

    Its been totally debunked by almost all the engineers and physicists who have examined the issue.

    But it would make sense that a bunch of phsychologists and mental health workers would sign onto this kind of delusional hate fest. These fields of studies attract scads of unhinged leftist types. In fact, almost all humanities departments in universities across the nation are run like siege states by leftist trolls who allow only like minded people through the gates.


    BY THE WAY, NOBODY BELIEVES TH OFFICIAL BULLSHIT STORY THE GOVERNMENT PUT OUT. WE'VE PROVEN THE GOVERNMENT DID IT WITH MOSSAD HELP, SO GO FUCK YOURSELF! GO READ "operation northwoods" WHILE YOU ARE FUCKING YOURSELF TOO!!!!

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  32. The "Anonymous" goobermint shills commenting here are obvious.
    The members of the 9/11 Commission who are all now coming out saying what a scam their 'investigation' was are cowards - why did they not let America & the world know this at the time? Why did they publish a faux report they knew at the time was bogus?
    See 'The Dog That Did Not Bark' on www.whatreallyhappened.com

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  33. US News and World Report was one of the first magazines infiltrated by the CIA shortly after WWII. Read "Blowback" by Chris Simpson to learn how the CIA was built with tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals, and how the National Security Act of 1947 gave the CIA blanket authority to withhold information from, or lie to, Congress. We didn't defeat the Nazis; we adopted them. We now live in a spy-based, lie-based oligarchy headed by the NSA, which is why it doesn't matter who the president is, or which party is in control - the policies don't change.

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  34. I have never understood how any rational person can be expected to believe that both the twin towers, at 110 stories, and building 7 at 47 stories, could collapse so UNIFORMLY at near FREE FALL speed, into the path of most resistance, no matter how badly they might have been damaged. Were they not built to resist collapse? They had to have been helped along by explosives. And office fires do not melt steel, so how can one explain away the molten steel that was found in the basement of each building? And just think, if NORAD had only followed standard procedure that morning, maybe none of this would have ever happened. The truth about 9/11 is going to come out. It is just a matter of time!

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  35. Every one of those links above quoting the 9/11 commissioners complaining about not getting the truth from the government relates to false information about the government *response* to the 9/11 attacks. None of their statements imply in any way that the government in any way was involved in the attacks.

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  36. to the shill up above this post, "None of their statements imply in any way that the government in any way was involved in the attacks", you are either a government agent trying to exonerate a bunch of mass murderers, or you are extremely thick skulled and or 'naive' to not realize that the U.S. government WAS INVOLVED IN THE ATTACKS AGAINST CITIZENS ON SEPT. 11, 2001, as was the ISRAELI MOSSAD.

    pull your head out or quit your government shill job, dorkus!

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  37. Knock off the "Inside Job" crap and talk about PHYSICS.

    Are psychologists and psychiatrists intelligent enough to understand Newtonian physics? Think of 9/11 as an intelligence test that involves a little CRITICAL THINKING.

    Does it makes sense to talk about a collapsing skyscraper without talking about the distribution of the steel that held it up for 28 years? So why don't the psych guys expect to hear the physics guys talking about that?

    Why aren't the physics guys talking about that?

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