This is rather hard to believe, but apparently Lawrence Tech is holding a public forum a week from tonight that will explore, in an approving tone, the “Truther” movement’s relentless claim that the World Trade Center was brought down by a Bush administration conspiracy, not the hijacked planes.
Architect Richard Gage, who believes piles of explosives caused the twin towers to collapse, will be the featured speaker. Gage is the founder of some group called Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, which is convinced that the al-Qaida attack, and the resulting damage and fire from the jetliners, could not have caused the towers to collapse.
The frightenting aspect of this is that Gage’s group apparently has 1,400 members, architects and engineers, who have signed a petition calling for a federal probe into their conspiracy theory.  I guess even among the educated a small slice of the crowd consists of left-wing loons.

Why Lawrence Tech has agreed to hold this event is beyond me. If you want to attend this free lecture, maybe just to get a few laughs, it will be held at 7 p.m. at the university’s architecture building auditorium, 21000 W. 10 Mile.