'People who are more personally distrustful tend to buy into conspiracy theories more,' says Mike Wood, a Canadian lecturer at the University of Winchester in England specializing in the psychology of conspiracy theories. Periods of uncertainty, distrustĪt a time when only one in five citizens (19 per cent) say they mostly trust their government, according to a 2015 Pew Research survey, scholars on the culture of conspiracy theories regard the longevity of the 9/11 Truth movement as a symptom of that pervasive distrust of government.Īn American flag flies over the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center buildings in New York in this 2001 file photo. And on Saturday, McIlvaine is scheduled to deliver a speech to Truthers in New York City.

Local 9/11 Truth chapters around the U.S.

Online videos claim holograms were used to project airplanes into the sky.

Meanwhile, the group Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth continues to hold symposiums contending that a 'controlled demolition' involving 'explosives and/or other devices' brought down the Twin Towers and WTC 7. Asked whether they suspected that the Bush administration had some foreknowledge about the attacks, 28 per cent believed the administration was 'mostly lying' about its 9/11 intelligence prior to the attack. #911truth /RBqzSDJxmA- an exhaustive 2005 special report by Popular Mechanicsdebunking 9/11 theories, polls still show a sizeable population of Americans dispute the official account.Īn October 2006 New York Times/CBS News survey carried out by Angus Reid talked to 1,042 U.S. 'If he was on the 106th floor, he wouldn't have been found so quickly.' As Bobby was among the first 10 bodies found, he says, McIlvaine believes his son was in the tower's lobby. Based on injuries his son sustained, including to his face and chest, he maintains Bobby was killed by an explosion, possibly before the plane crash. That's all I do every day … the best way to explain what happened - Robert McIlvaine, 9/11 Truth activist The official account says McIlvaine's eldest son - an aspiring fiction writer who graduated from Princeton University - was working as a media relations specialist for Merrill Lynch on the 106th floor when American Airlines Flight 11 struck the north tower.

Fifteen years later, the devastating attack on America that coincided with the nascent internet age continues to spawn discussions hosted in forums that speculate about the moon landing, the Hollow Earth hypothesis and the JFK assassination. 'It's like you have leprosy.' 9/11 and the internetĪnd yet, the Truther movement lives on. No one wants to talk about it,' McIlvaine says. That the 71-year-old retiree is also the father of one of the New York victims has caused some other families of victims to distance themselves. Members of the '9/11 Truth' movement protest near the World Trade Center site and the 9/11 Memorial on the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York on Sept.

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