9/11: Fruit and nut cases.

With the 5th anniversary of 9/11 looming, the lunatic fringe has been busy. Scholars for 9/11 Truth are in the van. The links on their website lead to enough fruit and nut cases to package Brazil's entire agricultural output for a decade.

In addition to the usual pseudo-academic "it didn't happen and here is the scientific and technical evidence which proves the Pentagon warmongers did it" nonsense are an 87 year old Nureremberg Prosecutor calling for George Bush to be prosecuted as a war criminal and, for older viewers, a nostalgic walk down memory lane as the traitor Daniel Ellsberg and the wimp John Dean share their thoughts about Watergate.

In fact the site is not really about 9/11 at all. It is a convention for self-hating radical nut-cases with a wide array of axes to grind about Western civilisation in general and American society in particular. Neither is much scholarship in evidence.

The serious question this blog wants to highlight is: why have Western higher educational institutions produced so many prize moonbats and so little learning and scholarship?