Marokkaan
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And this is why what's happening here is clearly not cognitive dissonance or whatever thing people think they're talking about when they cite the Kruger & Dunning Effect. Someone who could cite a Youtube video of Barry Zwicker, whom they seemingly don't recognize, just because his conclusions agree with there's, has a problem that can not be reduced to a single cognitive bias. All of this makes you wonder what he takes as authoritative about the 9/11 attacks. Dustification? Thermite? Foam?
I really wise this fetish of the cognitive bias would disappear - although I doubt it will. The problems of logic you see among Truthers are so complex, I doubt they can be explained by these kinds of mechanism - although I have no doubt that Kruger & Dunning disagree with me. Many of the Truthers here are probably just outright liars talking about this 9/11 Truth garbage for their own ulterior reasons. Probably a much more useful concept is the idea of status anxiety (which is only loosely related to the recent book by Alain de Botton).
Anyway, rock on dude. I'm going to bed.
LOL