The 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Image credit: Magnific. Article by Michael Shermer. Skeptic™ – September 11, 2026.

Following a public lecture I gave in 2005 at the L.A. Public Library, I was buttonholed by a documentary filmmaker with ambitions of exposing the conspiracy behind 9/11. “You mean the conspiracy by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda to attack the United States?” I asked rhetorically, knowing what was to come. “That’s what they want you to believe,” he said. “Who is they?” I queried. “The government,” he whispered, as if they might be listening at that very moment. At this point in the conversation I declined to be interviewed […]

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