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Lists of people who are skeptical or dispute official and mainstream accounts

See also: Lists of truthers for additional individuals who are skeptical or dispute official and mainstream accounts and publicly identify as a "truther".

These lists include living persons whose skepticism or dispute of official and mainstream accounts is relevant to their notable activities or public life.

These lists are not compiled based on political views, activism, or other sentiments and actions regarding their skepticism or dispute. Furthermore, these lists are not compiled by any specific official or mainstream account or event.

These lists of skeptics or disputers of official and mainstream accounts are not listed as truthers for at least one of the following reasons:

  • The individual publicly denies or declines identification as truther.
  • The individual has not publicly identified as a truther.
  • The individual may have publicly identified as a truther but proper citation is required.

Properly cited publicly self-identified "truthers" should be moved to the lists of truthers.

DRAFT lists development:

  • This draft aims to be properly modeled on the lists of atheists and sub-lists organized by profession and surname.
  • This list will collect all appropriate public figures until it becomes necessary to separate into lists by profession and surname.
  • Sub-lists should remain here until ready for separation and publication.


List of celebrity skeptics or disputers of official and mainstream accounts

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Lists of truthers

See also: Lists of people who are skeptical or dispute official and mainstream accounts for additional individuals without the "truther" label or identity.

These lists include living persons whose skepticism or dispute of official and mainstream accounts is relevant to their notable activities or public life, and who have publicly identified themselves as "truthers". These lists are not compiled based on political views, activism, or other sentiments and actions regarding their skepticism or dispute. Furthermore, these lists are not compiled by any specific official or mainstream account or event. (See also: truthers#types of truthers.) This list is only of skeptics publicly identifying with the "truther" label with proper citation.

Listed individuals without proper citings to meet these lists of truthers' requirements, may be moved to lists of people who are skeptical or dispute official and mainstream accounts with proper citing.

DRAFT lists development:

List of celebrity anti-truthers

List of celebrity former truthers

"I find it amazing this kind of pejorative term "truther" [is] for seeking the truth. And I mean that we've been saying Saudi Arabia was involved from the very beginning. We were called "crazy" and now look at how validated we are."[1]
"After I like got propelled in the mainstream they resurrected all the shit that I'd done about 9/11 cause I used to be in 9/11 Truth movement and they were like, "You're fucking crazy, here you are on video six years ago saying it was an inside job," and all this shit. And I was like, "Look I don't think it was an inside job. As a journalist that would be extremely irresponsible to claim that you know anything. All I can do is point out things that I feel are wrong with the official story." I feel like there's a lot of things that are wrong with what we've been told. Does that mean that we know what happened, that we can go out there and declare it? No. And really at this point all we can do is point out the people that benefited [and] the people that exploited it. Because it's just, the fact that you're just, you know... You're called a "conspiracy theorist", this catch all phrase that can just use to shut down debate but I still have some questions about 9/11. I have a lot of questions about 9/11 but I don't go out there and say it was an inside job."[2]
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List of celebrity truthers

"It shocked me and then really started to think about it. I says, "Wow", this is some psychological warfare and mind control at its best, as far as the masses of the people are concerned, because when you read some of the articles that they use the picture in, my name is not even mentioned. And then, it'll say something like at the end, Professor Griff supports a radical brand of Afro-Centrism, which I don't even use that particular technology. But simply put I was at a lecture in Dallas with some other scholars and some other truthers and the gentleman came up and he asked me to take a picture. He said he digged Public Enemy's music. We took a picture and I think that was the extent of it. No real conversation, I don't know him, I never exchanged information with him. That was that."[3]
"You know we just have to keep laughing at the scorn and watch it die. It doesn't have any place left to go now. I think now it's like eating its own tail. I mean the whole Saudi Arabia, all royal family, 9-11, Bush - all of it. It's eating its own tail, and everybody's like "Truther!? You're a truther!" You know when idiots are calling brilliant people stupid, you've got a real problem." ... "It's House of Saud morphs with House of Windsor works with the Vatican[disambiguation needed] works with Rothschild. It's all one big friggin mafia scam. I mean I'll probably get assassinated or droned when I'm outta here, but it's all a scam. A tired effin scam."[4]
"I am a 9-11 truther, and I'm proud of it. Actually, I'm a truther for everything. I'm a JFK truther, anthrax truther, 9-11 truther, Boston bomb truther - I'm a truther. And if being a truther is a very pejorative thing in your book - wow."[5]
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List of celebrity former anti-truthers

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Further research

http://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/celebrities-you-didnt-realize-were-911-truthers.php
  • Top 10 Celebrity 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Nutjobs - September 11, 2009 | Lists
http://www.thesharkguys.com/lists/top-10-celebrity-911-conspiracy-theory-nutjobs/


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Lists of truthers by surname

List of truthers (surnames A to B)

Likeness Name Dates Known for Reference
Roseanne Hard Rock Cafe.jpg Roseanne Barr 1952 – American actress, comedian, writer, television producer, director, and 2012 presidential nominee of the California-based Peace and Freedom Party.

"You know we just have to keep laughing at the scorn and watch it die. It doesn't have any place left to go now. I think now it's like eating its own tail. I mean the whole Saudi Arabia, all royal family, 9-11, Bush - all of it. It's eating its own tail, and everybody's like "Truther!? You're a truther!" You know when idiots are calling brilliant people stupid, you've got a real problem." ... "It's House of Saud morphs with House of Windsor works with the Vatican[disambiguation needed] works with Rothschild. It's all one big friggin mafia scam. I mean I'll probably get assassinated or droned when I'm outta here, but it's all a scam. A tired effin scam." [1]

List of truthers (surnames L to M)

Likeness Name Dates Known for Reference
Abby Martin RT correspondent.png Abby Martin 1984 – American journalist and presenter of The Empire Files on teleSUR English[2][3], formerly host of Breaking the Set[4] and correspondent for RT America.

"I find it amazing this kind of pejorative term "truther" [is] for seeking the truth. And I mean that we've been saying Saudi Arabia was involved from the very beginning. We were called "crazy" and now look at how validated we are." [5]

"After I like got propelled in the mainstream they resurrected all the shit that I'd done about 9/11 cause I used to be in 9/11 Truth movement and they were like, "You're fucking crazy, here you are on video six years ago saying it was an inside job," and all this shit. And I was like, "Look I don't think it was an inside job. As a journalist that would be extremely irresponsible to claim that you know anything. All I can do is point out things that I feel are wrong with the official story." I feel like there's a lot of things that are wrong with what we've been told. Does that mean that we know what happened, that we can go out there and declare it? No. And really at this point all we can do is point out the people that benefited [and] the people that exploited it. Because it's just, the fact that you're just, you know... You're called a "conspiracy theorist", this catch all phrase that can just use to shut down debate but I still have some questions about 9/11. I have a lot of questions about 9/11 but I don't go out there and say it was an inside job." [6]

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  2. Marketwired. (September 3, 2015). "teleSUR Launches New Investigative TV Show Hosted by Abby Martin." Yahoo Finance. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  3. Malavé, Helga (August 27, 2015). "Abby Martin Launches Investigative News Show for teleSUR." TeleSUR. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  4. Koss, Jeremy. (May/June 2013). Real Talk. SOMA Magazine, 27(3): 52–53. ISSN 0896-5005
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Proponents

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Many individuals and organizations that support or discuss 9/11 conspiracy theories consider themselves to be part of the 9/11 Truth movement.

Alex Jones at a 9/11 Truth Movement event in 2007

Prominent adherents of the movement include, among others, radio talk show host Alex Jones, theologian David Ray Griffin, physicist Steven E. Jones, software engineer Jim Hoffman, architect Richard Gage, film producer Dylan Avery, former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives Cynthia McKinney,[1] actors Daniel Sunjata, Ed Asner, and Charlie Sheen, political science professor Joseph Diaferia and journalist Thierry Meyssan.[2][3][4] Adherents of the 9/11 Truth movement come from diverse social backgrounds.[5][6][7] The movement draws adherents from people of diverse political beliefs including liberals, conservatives, and libertarians.[7][8][9]

Among the organizations that actively discuss and promote such theories are Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, a group that focuses on the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings; 9/11 Truth, founded in 2004; Scholars for 9/11 Truth, founded in 2005, and Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice, a group that split from Scholars for 9/11 Truth in 2007 and runs the online publication Journal of 9/11 Studies; 9/11 Citizens Watch, which was already formed in 2002; and the Hispanic Victims Group. Several of these groups have collected signatures on petitions asking for further investigation of the September 11 attacks.[10][11][12]

In 2004, John Buchanan ran for president on a "9/11 Truth" platform.[13]

9/11 Conspiracy theory critic Jonathan Kay asserts that for the most part proponents are not out for financial gain and in some cases have left lucrative careers to become activists.[14]

Dr Michael Wood and Dr Karen Douglas University of Kent psychologists who specialize in conspiracy theories[15] examined the comments sections of over 2000 news articles relating to the collapse of World Trade Center 7. They found that proponents of 9/11 conspiracy theories were more likely to try and debunk the mainstream account than promote their own theories and also were more likely to believe in other conspiracy theories. Proponents of the mainstream account tended to argue for that account and showed a greater hostility toward conspiracy theory proponents.[16]

Dissecting the 9/11 Truth movement community

According to a 2011 analysis in a Skeptical Inquirer article, people involved in this movement, which seemingly is a disparate group with very diversified backgrounds, could be classified into three groups. They join the movement for different reasons, loosely self-assemble to fill different roles and are united by their shared mistrust in experts and the establishment (government and reputable sources of knowledge), and conspiratorial stance. Through their engagement, they each find their own fulfillment and satisfaction. Together, they contribute to the persistence, resilience and exaggerated claims of acceptance (in general public) of the movement. These three groups are:[17]

  • Hard Core: The organizers and active members of the various 9/11 Truth Movement organizations. They produce the information, spot the anomalies and technical inconsistencies, provide the technical base and form the theories. While they claim to be only interested in facts and to use scientific method, they commit the logical fallacy of ‘confirmation bias’ by pre-determining the outcome, then searching for corroborating evidence while ignoring the vast body of peer-reviewed, independent, consensual research which contradict their theories. They supply the physical structure of the movement by organizing events, seminars, discussions, marches and distributing flyers and pamphlets. Their numbers are relatively small but they are tight-knit and highly connected. Their worldview favors ‘super-conspiracy’, a master plan that is behind conspiracies which they believe they are uncovering.[17]
  • Critically turned: They are the young students and political activists whose affiliation with the 9/11 Truth Movement often is rooted from their dissatisfaction and anger at the established political and social order. Their sense of justice and idealism propels them to activism against perceived oppression and social injustice. Their penchant to use Internet, especially social media, and tech savvy make them the propaganda machine for the movement. They produce YouTube videos and films with cool, countercultural content, make good use of pop culture parody and eye-catching graphics. The countercultural street cred of their productions buy them broad appeal and exposure to millions of people.[17]
  • Illiterati: They are the movement's mass membership backbone, a large, diffuse group which give the movement exaggerated claims of popularity and influence. Participation in the 9/11 Truth Movement, to this group of people, is as much a social and recreational pursuit as the quest for truth. Their partaking is mostly through web 2.0 social networking and YouTube. Their commentaries often are emotional and they make no pretense to be accurate, balanced or to show genuine intent to find truth. Involvement with the movement that fit their worldview gives them a sense of identity and belonging, which they find more appealing than the facts and evidences of the 9/11 terrorist attack itself.[17]

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  14. The Persistence of Conspiracy Theories Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty September 16, 2011.
  15. Psychologists investigate online communication of conspiracy theories Medical Press July 10, 2013.
  16. "What about building 7?" A social psychological study of online discussion of 9/11 conspiracy theories Dr Michael Wood and Dr Karen Douglas for "frontiers in personality science and individual differences 8 June 2013.
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