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Title: French follies: a 9/11 conspiracy theory turns out to be an appalling deception.(Book Review)
Author: L. Kirk Hagen
Publication: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2002
Publisher: Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine
Volume: 9 Issue: 4 Page: 8(7)Article Type: Book ReviewDistributed by Thompson Gale
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Review of L'Effroyable Imposture, by Thierry Meyssan. (Chatou, France: Carnot, 2002) 235 pages FOR SOME YEARS NOW, MANY American liberals have been dismayed by the odd collection of "progressive" ideas emanating from France. The final decades of the 20th century may have been good overall for liberalism in France, with 14 years of socialist presidential leadership. But those same years ironically proved to be fertile ground for some decidedly irrational, illiberal, and un-Frenchilke ideas. From literary critic Jacques Derrida--the man sometimes cited as one of the most influential thinkers of the century--we learned that the Einsteinian constant is not a constant or a center, but the very concept of variability. It is an insight for which physicists will...
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