Sunday, December 31, 2006

Kevin Barrett: Artists, Not Scientists Best Equipped to Study WTC Collapse


I haven't watched the whole thing, but this clip from my new favorite nutter left me shaking my head. From 17:30 in:

Scientists aren't necessarily the best people to look at this footage and understand what they are seeing. Why? Because many scientists, especially engineers tend to be left hemisphere people. They're linear thinkers, they are very very good at following a linear path of logic, but it terms of looking at a picture and understand what they are seeing, that is a right brain and that is actually a function that artists are better at than scientists. For that reason, one would expect that engineers, subject to cognitive dissonance that we are all subject to, would in examining this event be very likely to fall into a linear track of thought that would be essentially trying to show that it could have happened the way the government said it did.



Update by Pat: If the video doesn't work, you can see it here.

8 Comments:

At 31 December, 2006 12:57, Blogger pomeroo said...

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At 31 December, 2006 13:07, Blogger pomeroo said...

Do you notice that the conspiracy liars never manage to grasp the point that "the gubmint" doesn't SAY anything? Scientists and other researchers have pieced together a coherent narrative, supported by sound science, that accounts for the events of 9/11/01.

 
At 31 December, 2006 13:34, Blogger Brian Dunbar said...

Kudos to y'all for wading in this swamp, so the rest of us don't have to. We - luck saps that we are - get to read the highlights and dip our toes in if we want to.

 
At 31 December, 2006 16:22, Anonymous Anonymous said...

What a nitwit. He has a slight point - an artist thinking outside the box might see something a scientist might not, but that artist better run their ideas by scientific evaluation because the WORLD ACTUALLY WORKS IN LINEAR, SCIENTIFIC WAYS! That's how linear scientists are able to understand and manipulate nature - hopefully to mankind's benefit.

 
At 31 December, 2006 17:04, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hell, I have made a living as an artist all my life, see my automotive art at

http://www.motorsportsartist.com/

I have no problem seeing the hype of the truthers, and in fact have a little blog myself

http://www.911truthiness.org/

Just because you are creative does not mean you turn off your brain and buy any Woo Woo that comes down the pike. Its an insult to artist everywhere.

You can as an artist admire the images of a surrealist but also know watches can't really hang from trees.

 
At 01 January, 2007 05:37, Blogger The Artistic Macrophage said...

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At 01 January, 2007 05:38, Blogger The Artistic Macrophage said...

Thanks Pat and Jim, this is now my new favorite truther quote of all time. What a F&*King loon. I mean that comment is better, in an insane nutty way, than anything Jim Fetzer has ever said...and that is saying something.

Keep it up Barrett, and you will make our jobs a hell of a lot easier....idiot.

TAM

 
At 01 January, 2007 13:31, Blogger Cl1mh4224rd said...

Huh... The right brain/left brain thing sounds like 28thKingdom over at JREF...

 

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