Zwicker to 9/11 truthers (#4 snowshoefilms

ZWICKER MEMO -- Barrie Zwicker, author of Towers of Deception: the media cover-up of 9/11, offers a partial list of techniques used by those determined to avoid or suppress discussion of the evidence:
absurdities, ad hominem sallies, bald assertions that are misstatements, bandwagon psychology, bizarre non-sequiters, bullying, diminishment of importance (of the important), dismissiveness, diversion (e.g., not answering the question), failure to provide minimal evidence, fake humility, fake open-mindedness, false parallels, false syllogisms, framing to exclude contrary outlooks, ignorance flaunted as admirable, insinuation, internal contradiction, major premises hidden in passing, misdirection, misleading asides, mixing metaphors (apples and oranges), obfuscation, restriction of options, scare tactics, setting up straw men, sweeping generalizations, and word inflation. In future parts of this series, we will illustrate Chomsky's post-9/11 use of many of these techniques.



Zwicker talking about the psychological dimension when it comes to accepting confronting information. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, April 23, 2025.]