• KombatWombat@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    The thing is while the jet fuel would not have outright melted steel beams, it would certainly have weakened them enough to compromise the building’s structural integrity. But ironically a lot of conspiracy theorists care more about being right than learning the truth, so will not care about nuance or acting in good faith.

    You can see similar issues with anti-vaxers objecting to vaccines as unsafe because of outliers. Correlation is enough to prove them right on their points but unimportant for statistics that counter them.