Sept. 11 claim stirs UW probe

Well, this has blown-up to a bigger controversy since I first linked (without posting):

"'The 9/11 lie was designed to sow hatred between the faiths,' Barrett has written on the organization's Web site. 'Either we discuss the compelling evidence that 9/11 was an inside job, or there is precious little to talk about.'"

Other Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists in academia include Steven Jones, a physicist from Brigham Young University who argues that the World Trade Center towers were brought down by controlled explosives, not just the impact of airplanes; James H. Fetzer, a retired philosophy professor from the University of Minnesota-Duluth who believes the U.S. military launched a missile into the Pentagon and shot down the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania; and David Ray Griffin, a retired professor from the Claremont School of Theology who sums up arguments for U.S. involvement in the attacks in two books, "The New Pearl Harbor" and "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions."

On the one hand, he's an idiot. On the other hand, he's already gotten more publicity than he deserves and is offensive to all - especially those who lost loved ones in the attacks of 911. That UW has not dismissed him makes me re-examine my loyalty to the Alma Mater.