Quote:And yet the very fact that a high-school student approaching college comes to us with such a question is rather telling in itself.
Blatham adds more anecdotal evidence (his and Ican's experiences) but that doesn't mean that the poster's concerns are without foundation. She didn't pluck that question out of thin air.
JW...here's a primary mistake you make, of the "where there is rumor of smoke, there is surely evidence a fire probably blazed"
We've seen posters come onto this board who were convinced that 9-11 had been initiated by Israel's Mossad. They referred to accounts found on web pages or in newsletters which claimed that Jewish people had been forewarned, and were not present in the towers that morning. They used terms such as 'evidence'. They suggested that there would be no reason for these accounts to be 'all over the internet' unless there was something to them.
Why could we not reword your sentence above as follows?
"He didn't pluck that information out of thin air."
