Ignorance is as Ignorance does

The ignorant person who wrote the "article" below mixes and matches several logical fallacies to make his illogical point(s). Most people will read it and nod their heads in agreement and go about their business, very much none the wiser.

Without going into too much detail, as a quick example, suffice to say that it should be self-evident (but is not for way too many people) that making the claim that since 20 people think something is false and only 5 think something is true, it must "logically" be false.

Most of these "articles" are like a Where's Waldo of logical fallacies and other poor writing.

Unfortunately, unwittingly, or intentionally, they tend to have their desired affect on too many people.

On the plus side, AE911Truth is being increasingly attacked because it is making a difference.

http://911-engineers.blogspot.com/2008/12/architects-and-engineers.html

Architects and Engineers

I guess a lot of you have heard about the website ae911truth where a group of individuals claim that what happened to WTC 1, 2 and 7 could not have happened. This is just a claim, because they have nothing to show for their allegation that it could not have happened the way it did. You won't find any calculations that show how the NIST Report is wrong. On this site, you will find many structural engineers - those who actually know what they are talking about - explaining why the towers collapsed the way they did. So feel free to look at all the information I have gathered about the research done on the collapse on the towers. The research has been published in numerous engineering magazines and all over the internet on engineering sites (See the links on the right side of this site).

Only a handful of architects and engineers question the NIST Report, but they have never come up with an alternative. Although at first blush it may seem impressive that these people don't believe the NIST Report, remember that there are 123,000 members of ASCE(American Society of Civil Engineers) who do not question the NIST Report. There are also 80,000 members of AIA(American Institute of Architects) who do not question the NIST Report.

Although their field of expertise is not related to the construction of buildings - they don't seem to have a problem with that over at AE911truth - there are also 120,000 members of ASME(American Society of Mechanical Engineers) who do not question the NIST report. There are also 370,000 members of IEEE(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) who do not question the NIST report. There are also 40,000 members of AIChE(American Institute of Chemical Engineers) who do not question the NIST Report. There are also 35,000 members of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) who do not question the NIST report. So who would you rather believe?

Hitler was popular once.

"since 20 people think something is false and only 5 think something is true, it must "logically" be false."
By that logic the German people were right about Hitler. NOT!
http://www.kimel.net/popularity.html
And further. By this bloggers logic, the fact that none of the listed architects have questioned 9/11 equates with support of the official conspiracy theory. This argument carries no weight. It doesn't prove that they have given any thought to it whatsoever. It's more likely that, like most people we know, they are either too busy with the day to day struggle to exist, and/or afraid of confirming what common sense tells them is true.

Read the article with more care?

I don't think you could have read the article carefully enough. The blogger posted something that he was rebutting. Your comments seem to be directed towards the article being rebutted. In any case, one of us has read the post incorrectly I believe.