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Nov 16, 2025
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9-11 was an inside job

Major investigations and mainstream reporting reject the claim that “9/11 was an inside job,” concluding the attacks were carried out by al‑Qaeda operatives; government analyses such as NIST and debun...

Nov 22, 2025
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Did Bush do 9/11?

Claims that “Bush did 9/11” are a central 9/11 conspiracy theory that accuses the George W. Bush administration of planning, allowing, or covering up the September 11, 2001 attacks; most mainstream in...

Dec 20, 2025
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9/11 controlled demolition

The claim that the World Trade Center towers were brought down by a pre-planted “controlled demolition” is a central tenet of the 9/11 Truth movement but has been repeatedly examined and rejected by m...

Nov 15, 2025

Did a plane hit the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001?

Multiple authoritative investigations, eyewitness accounts, government archives, and memorial records say American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked on September 11, 2001, and crashed into the Pentagon ...

Dec 13, 2025

Bush did 9/11?

Claims that “Bush did 9/11” — meaning President George W. Bush or his administration orchestrated or knowingly allowed the September 11, 2001 attacks — are a long-standing strand of 9/11 conspiracy th...

Oct 15, 2025

Everything wrong with tucker carlsons recent 911 series

Tucker Carlson’s recent 9/11 series advances a that alleges suppression and deception by intelligence agencies and suggests ties between U.S. agencies and the hijackers, but available analyses show th...

Dec 9, 2025

How did NASA plan Apollo trajectories to minimize Van Allen belt exposure in 1967–1972?

NASA planned Apollo translunar trajectories to cut exposure to the Van Allen belts by routing spacecraft through the thinner, higher‑inclination fringes and by making rapid, ballistic transits so crew...

Dec 8, 2025

What design features make go-fast boats ideal for drug smuggling operations?

Go‑fast boats combine very high speed, lightweight, and sleek hull designs that let smugglers outrun or evade interceptors and carry large payloads relative to fuel use; U.S. enforcement reports and n...

Nov 25, 2025

Why was there no plane debris in shanksville

Investigators recovered a large, spread-out debris field from United Airlines Flight 93: some large pieces and cockpit fragments were found near and beyond the main crater, while much of the aircraft ...

Nov 28, 2025

What evidence was recovered at the Flight 93 crash site in Shanksville on September 11, 2001?

Investigators recovered human remains, aircraft debris (including an engine and other wreckage), the cockpit voice and flight data recorders, identification and personal effects linked to hijackers an...

Nov 17, 2025

What forensic evidence confirms the Pentagon was struck by a plane rather than a missile?

Multiple independent investigations and extensive photo, video, eyewitness and forensic work concluded American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001; investigators rec...

Jan 12, 2026

Which claims made by the 9/11 truth movement have been most thoroughly debunked, and how did debunkers demonstrate errors?

A handful of the 9/11 Truth Movement’s most-circulated claims—namely that jet impacts and fires could not have brought down the Twin Towers, that World Trade Center 7 was a controlled demolition, that...

Nov 30, 2025

did building 7 WTC collapse normally or artificially?

NIST concluded that WTC 7 collapsed because fires, fed by office contents and ignited by debris from the Twin Towers, caused a critical column to fail and a subsequent progressive, fire-induced collap...

Nov 25, 2025

What motivates 9/11 conspiracy theories and how have experts debunked common claims?

Conspiracy theories about 9/11 arise from a mix of psychological reactions to trauma, distrust of official institutions, and selective reading of technical evidence; experts and major investigations (...

Nov 25, 2025

Which specific technical claims about the World Trade Center collapses have been scientifically debunked and by whom?

Investigations led by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and multiple independent engineering teams have rejected specific technical claims that explosives or a pre‑planted...

Nov 2, 2025

How have 9/11 conspiracy theories been addressed by experts and fact-checkers?

Two decades of expert analysis and mainstream fact-checking converge on a single, evidence-based conclusion: the World Trade Center towers collapsed from , not controlled demolition, a finding repeate...

Nov 18, 2025

What is the melting point of steel beams in relation to jet fuel temperatures?

Available reporting consistently shows that common structural steels melt at temperatures roughly 1,370–1,510 °C (2,500–2,750 °F) while uncontrolled jet-fuel fires typically reach a few hundred to abo...

Nov 13, 2025

How does the Gripen's lifecycle cost compare to other fighter jets?

The Saab Gripen is consistently presented in the reviewed material as , driven by lower hourly operating costs, simplified maintenance, and design choices favoring fuel efficiency and ease of support ...

Dec 9, 2025

How reliable are popular 9/11 conspiracy claims compared with peer-reviewed research and primary sources?

Popular conspiracy claims about 9/11 — controlled demolition of the towers (including WTC 7), missile or no‑plane at the Pentagon, and remote control of airliners — have been repeatedly examined and r...

Dec 2, 2025

What are the main conspiracy claims about Shanksville and how have official reports responded to them?

Conspiracy claims about the Shanksville crash center on three themes: that no intact airliner wreckage or bodies were ever found, that military jets or a shoot‑down occurred, and that evidence was pla...