AP Gives Kid Gloves Treatment to Scholars for 9-11 Denial

Sheesh, looks like the recent burst of publicity for the 9-11 Deniers has resulted in some increased respect for the nutbars.

Kevin Barrett believes the U.S government might have destroyed the World Trade Center. Steven Jones is researching what he calls evidence that the twin towers were brought down by explosives detonated inside them, not by hijacked airliners.

These men aren't uneducated junk scientists: Barrett will teach a class on Islam at the University of Wisconsin this fall, over the protests of more than 60 state legislators. Jones is a tenured physicist at Brigham Young University whose mainstream academic job has made him a hero to conspiracy theorists.

So they're not uneducated junk scientists; they're educated junk scientists. And get this:

Daniel Orr, a Princeton Ph.D. and widely published retired economics chair at the University of Illinois, said he knew instantly from watching the towers fall that they had been blown apart by explosives. He was reminded of watching an old housing project being destroyed in St. Louis.

Except of course that Jones does not claim that the towers were blown apart by explosives; the thermite/thermate he pretends was used is not an explosive.