Truth, strike two

[ciphergoth]

Thanks for some interesting and surprising responses to the JFK question. At the risk of creating more heat than light, let me try another example, one that I think might be a little less comfortable to be neutral about.

It seems that many people believe that on the morning of September 11, 2001, four thousand or more Israelis who were working at the World Trade Center did not show up for work.

Are those people wrong?

(Update: amended as per ajva's caveat)

Comments

[adjectivegail]

Ah, yes, I did mean that and you've pointed out a rather obvious flaw! I was thinking that in that particular workplace people didn't really talk about their emails, even if they'd just sent/received emails to each other and then met in the kitchen, unless it was about work. So they probably wouldn't have mentioned it to her - except it would've only needed one of them to do so for me to have created a bit of a faux pas.

At the time I did send a global email and restricted my comment to the URL and something like "Snopes is an authoritative source on urban legends and says we don't need to worry". I figured the more words I let myself use, the more likely I was going to say something embarrassing or patronising or something.