9/11 Conspiracy Theories

The 9/11 "Truthers" have apparently been harassing Michael Shermer on his book tour, due to Skeptic magazine's cover story (volume 12, number 4) investigating 9/11 conspiracy theories. (Here's a clip of Bill Maher's television show being disrupted by a "Truther.") James Meigs, editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics, was interviewed on the Berkeley Groks radio show and the podcast is, I think, a good summary of the investigation by Popular Mechanics into claims that 9/11 was an inside job of the Bush administration. Even Noam Chomsky finds this too much to swallow! Skeptoid offers this more succinct analysis. I'm confident that the debate will continue long after I've shuffled off this mortal coil.