On the Things That Never Happened ...
... and the educational attainment of people who promulgate these ideas
Some think that the following events never happened:
Ancient Rome
The famous “ancient” Roman History by Cornelius Tacitus was really written by the well-known Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini. The publications occurred in the years 1882-1885 and 1878.
—Anatoly Fomenko, “The Issue with Chronology” (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2017)).
Moon landing
Now for some light-hearted fun. What’s the one ‘conspiracy theory’ that no matter what anyone says you believe is true. Mine is that the moon landing in 1969 was completely faked. Just nothing about it makes sense. Especially NASA ‘accidentally erasing’ the original footage.
—Candace Owens on Twitter, January 28, 2022.
Sandy Hook and Parkland
Within hours of the Parkland shooting, [Alex] Jones speculated in a radio broadcast that the tragedy had been engineered by gun control advocates, similar to claims he made about the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. In a video titled “David Hogg Can’t Remember His Lines In TV Interview,” InfoWars later suggested that Hogg in particular was a so-called ‘crisis actor’ being coached in his statements to the media.
—“YouTube Pulls Alex Jones Video Saying Student Anti-Gun Activists Were Actors”, Fortune, February 24, 2018.
September 11
I don’t know what happened on 9/11. I mean, I understand what the official explanation [for 9/11] is, I understand that there is dissent. I have not looked into it. I haven’t examined it. I’m not a good person to talk to about it…
[T]here’s strange things that happened, that don’t seem … One of the buildings [in New York] came down that wasn’t hit by a plane, so, you know, was it building seven or building 10?
—Robert F Kennedy Jr, in a podcast interview c. Sep 26, 2023
The Holocaust
Holocaust deniers argue that Nazi Germany was the victim of a conspiracy, contrived by the Allies to brand Nazi Germany the villain of World War II. They maintain that the U.S. and Great Britain concocted wild atrocity stories about the Nazis to cover up their own war crimes. Jews, they claim, joined the conspiracy in order to prey upon the sympathies of the world and extort money from post-war Germany in order to establish the State of Israel… To one degree or another, Holocaust revisionists claim the Holocaust is an exaggeration, if not an outright hoax. Many argue that Hitler's intentions were peaceful, and that the real villains of the war were actually U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill and the Jews.
“What is Holocaust Denial?”: 0.3, Museum of Tolerance, retrieved on October 27, 2023.
October 7
Juxtapose these two quotes:
(1)
There are a lot of horrors that have been reported in the last seventeen days—rape that broke women’s pelvic bones, babies riddled with bullets, children whose fingers and feet were cut off, entire families that were burned to death with their hands tied behind their backs, a pregnant woman whose fetus was cut out of her stomach while she was still alive… At least 260 bodies [were] found at the [Nova Festival] site.
—Candace Mittel Kahn, “My Old Friend Is Ripping Down Posters of Kidnapped Children”, The Free Press, October 25, 2023; “Desert horror: Music festival goers heard rockets, then Gaza militants fired on them and took hostages”, CNN October 9, 2023.
(2)
Israel has consistently misrepresented Hamas’s October 7th attack…
—Tahirah Abdullah, Ping-Ann Addo, Devin Atallah, Elsa Auerbach, Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Suha Ballout, Hadi Banat, Chris Bobel, Andrés Henao Castro, Elora Chowdhury, Estelle Disch, Linda Dittmar, Leila Farsakh, Sommer Forrester, Sana Haroon, John Hess, Jessica Holden, Luis Jiménez, Keith Jones, Harry Konstantinidis, Patricia Krueger-Henney, Askold Melnyczuk, Dana Francisco Miranda, Jeff Melnick, Louise Penner, Rachel Rubin, Heike Schotten, Steve Striffler, Karen Suyemoto, Len Von Morzé, Paul Watanabe, “The Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) at UMass Boston (UMB) demand an immediate end to the ongoing, genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip being perpetrated by Israel since October 7, 2023.” Signed on October 21, 2023.
What is the difference between the last item on the list above and the rest of them? All people who signed the last item have PhDs1. With an Academia like this who needs the Obscurantists!
…Wait, what is this drop of BLOOD on my screen?! Phew, it’s just the “o” in “Khayke Scottish.”
Anatoly Fomenko’s PhD is in Mathematics, not History.
Where can I read the rest of this statement by UMB faculty and staff?
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