Recently, some intrepid Truthers (are there any other kind?) cornered Senator Swiftboat himself and asked John kerry about the sudden collapse of WTC-7, that 47 story US government building never mentioned in the Kean Commission Report. Was it a controlled demolition, these Truthers asked?

"Well that's a new one to me," Said Kerry. "I do know that that wall, I remember, was in danger and I think they made the decision based on the danger that it had in destroying other things-- that they did it in a controlled fashion..But I'll check on the story-- I'll take a look at it based on what you've said. You're the first people anywhere in the country who've brought this to my attention."

Really, Senator Kerry? First people? The first people to mention to you, sir, a controlled demotion may have occured at the WTC more than five years? The first people anywhere in the country? You, Senator Kerry,  NEVER heard any other whispers about a controlled demolition before? Never heard any of your constituents in Massachusetts ask you about inconsistencies, and whether 911 might be an inside job?

Truly, the more I hear so-called intelligent well-informed people, like Senator Kerry, whether liberal or conservative, talk about 911, the more I realize what damn fools these educated and well-paid people are. How truly debased their thought processes--if they ever really possessed any independent thought processes--have become, through the power of propaganda and the belief in smoke and mirrors pseudo-science.

A Truther will look at a thing and try to determine, logically, scientifically, statistically or experimentally (when possible), whether a thing is true or false. A debunker will look at a thing and declare how scientific principals only apply to SOME things and not others.

Debunkers resemble that rich and well-educated fellow at the rail of the doomed Titanic who exclaimed: 'This ship cannot possibly sink!' Meanwhile the uneducated coal stokers stand beside him, shaking their grimy heads, having seen torrents of water gushing into the ship, and thinking what idiots these educated people are because they want--NO, DEMAND!--unscientific things to be true.

Most Truthers are like scientists, researchers, and good detectives. Most debunkers resemble stubborn alchemists, having devised a pet hypothesis, that is 'a tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified,' and several lofty mathematical equations, they continue trying--and failing--to melt pot metal into gold.

Truthers believe, most of us anyway, that science is empirical, that is, 'relying upon or derived from observation or experiment.' Debunkers believe a thing is true because they wish it to be so and say it is so, or because their powerful and dictatorial government tells them it is so. Debunkers rely less on science and more upon those with advanced degrees, hired by that powerful, dictatorial government, to say 911 happene exactly as the government says it did.

Just because a dissenting theory is stated over and over again, does not make it true or false. Truth is in the verifiable, in the testing and retesting, in observing a hundred or a thousand times over. Not in the declared fragility or lack of integrity in modern steel skyscrapers, or in the integrity (or lack thereof) in government experts. 911 Science is not a popularity contest. Given the choice, I would much rather trust in the honest integrity of that skyscraper.

Truthers see a skyscraper falling from the sky, and then witness a second and a third skyscraper falling at near gravitational speed, and think how odd, how suspicious and how very unusual. None had ever happened before or since. Debunkers see falling skyscrapers and say, how natural, given the laws of gravity and the destructive power of fire.

Truthers thus look at that fire closely and realize--after thousands of years of mankind's experience with smelters, hundreds of years of engineering iron & steel beam construction, centuries of fuel experiments and our innate knowledge of oxygen, how absurd and unlikely an oxygen-starved fuel fire would cause not one but three skyscrapers to collapse at near gravitation speed due to heat weakening the steel core in a fifty minute fire.

As a controlled experiment that feat could not be duplicated in ten thousand years.

Debunkers therefore hired scientists to tell us commoners the NEW laws pertaining to heat, metal, mass, convection and conduction and gravity. These debunker scientists informed us how the OLD time-tested and verifiable scientific laws do not apply in the continental US after the expiration date of September 1st 2001.

Truthers then asked HOW modern steel beams, with a melting point exceeding 2500 degrees Fahrenheit, could be found in pools beneath the WTC rubble weeks later, yet a fuel fire cannot exceed 1500 degrees? Debunkers could not answer then and refused to answer still.

Instead, debunkers debased and denied the veracity of these very same professionals who saw the pools of molten metal. Thus they selectively skewed the experiment and debased their own observations, sabotaging their entire case.

Truthers ask the WHY and HOW, never claiming superior intelligence as proof of the validity of their claims, trying instead to understand the crucial details and anomalies of 911. Because WE ARE IGNORANT OF 911 FACTS, WE DEMAND PROOF.

Instead, Debunkers claim their superior list of scientists with advanced degrees somehow proves their THEORIES are superior. But but denying their theories have ever been tested, they show their ignorance of how science works. Debunkers deny (when not outright lying) the hundreds of scientific anomalies, waving away the hundreds of suspicious coincidences, destroying any credibility they might once have possessed.

Debunkers are thus junk scientists and alchemists.

Truthers are akin to Galileo, Leonardo and Edison.

Debunker of dumb science and political alchemy, Douglas Herman writes for Rense regularly.