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

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've encountered this - including one particularly nasty one about the South African police closing down their rape/child abuse department. Very quickly Snopes-able, turned out to be absolute rubbish and probably actually created originally by child abusers themselves to defame the department in question.

Emailed the person back and told them it was nonsense and to check their facts before forwarding chain mails on, and included all the relevant links to Snopes and the SA police website. She threw a fit, started going on about "I was sent this by a well-respected person, I was forwarding it in good faith" - as if 'in good faith' was the same as being factually correct.