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

[lovingboth]

Some things like that will always be up for debate. The causes of the First World War is another good example (in a way that 'the First World War happened' isn't) and anyone who writes on it needs to acknowledge that, in the manner of the BBC advertising its own products, 'other explanations exist'.

What pissed me off immensely at THT was that some people were not open to a discussion about some things. I don't mind people being wrong - I am sometimes - but I do mind them objecting to being challenged about their work in any way.

(Curiously, the blunter approach was the one that got a couple of meetings to happen.)

(Catching up)