Bad Thinkers

The one I remember reading about was a Popular Mechanics article about the collapse of WTC tower 7. To be fair I accepted the official explanation for the collapse and can't argue for or against the PM article.

You gotta admit that the building had a perfect freefall.
 
That is why trained experts spend years in graduate school and post-docs becoming intimately familiar with the peer reviewed scientific literature and developing highly honed skills in inductive reasoning

Because becoming an expert with an opinion that matters takes more than reading a couple of blogs and then running over to jpp dot com the posture as an armchair expert.
When Dan Rather/Mary Mapes were railroaded out of CBS over their reporting on Dubyah and the TANG, the 'expert' on the document authentication turned out to be some blogger that everyone cited as the incident festered.
 
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