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Austin Bay has reviewed
Debunking 9/11 Myths, calling it “a handy antidote to the conspiracy theorists' more noxious rhetorical poisons":
“Book editors David Dunbar and Brad Reagan laud former Sen. Pat Moynihan's classic quip: 'Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. He is not entitled to his own facts.' ... With Moynihan as a guide, the book follows a "Claim" and "Fact" format. The "Fact" section includes analysis from structural engineers, a professor of metallurgy and explosives experts. […]
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Debunking's afterword, written by Popular Mechanics editor in chief James Meigs, deserves special plaudits. Journalism and rhetoric professors should make use of it in undergraduate classes. Meigs analyzes eight 9/11 conspiracy-spinner techniques…[his] analyses of "demonization" and the "paranoid style" are particularly crisp and compelling.”
Glenn Reynolds, creator of Instapundit.com writes, “It's a much-expanded version of the Popular Mechanics mythbusting article from last year, with a foreword by John McCain on the toxic nature of the circulating conspiracy theories. Perhaps they should teach it at the University of Wisconsin.