Lynn Margulis revolutionized biology. She was mocked for what she theorized years before it became universal knowledge: the prediction of mitochondrial DNA; the theory of how complex cell structures arose through ingestion of other organisms leading to symbiosis; the theory of the biosphere as single system ("Gaia hypothesis").
Richard Dawkins has described her endosymbiosis theory as "one of the great achievements of twentieth-century evolutionary biology."
Here's Prof. Margulis's statement to the website 'PatriotsQuestion9/11' on August 27 2007:
"The 9/11 tragedy is the most successful and most perverse publicity stunt in the history of public relations. I arrive at this conclusion largely as the result of the research and clear writing by David Ray Griffin in his fabulous books about 9/11. I first met him when he was a speaker at a scholarly conference unrelated to 9/11. He immediately impressed me as a brilliant, outstanding philosopher - theologian - author, a Whiteheadian scholar motivated by an intense curiosity to know everything possible about the world.
On the plane home and for the next two days I did little else but read Griffin’s first book about 9/11, The New Pearl Harbor. From there I went on to read his even more disturbing account of the bogus 9/11 Commission Report, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, which provides overwhelming evidence that the official story is contradictory, incomplete, and unbelievable.
It is clear to me that David Ray Griffin and his fellow critics are correct: the 9/11 "new Pearl Harbor" was planned in astonishing detail and carried out through the efforts of a sophisticated and large network of operatives. It was more complex and far more successful than the Allende assassination, the US bombing of our own ship the "Maine" that began the Spanish-American war (and brought us Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines), the Reichstag fire that was used to justify the suspension of most civil liberties in Germany in the 1930's, and even Operation Himmler, which was used by Germany to justify the invasion of Poland, which started World War II.
Whoever is responsible for bringing to grisly fruition this new false-flag operation, which has been used to justify the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as unprecedented assaults on research, education, and civil liberties, must be perversely proud of their efficient handiwork. Certainly, 19 young Arab men and a man in a cave 7,000 miles away, no matter the level of their anger, could not have masterminded and carried out 9/11: the most effective television commercial in the history of Western civilization.
I suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough, and impartial investigation be undertaken."
http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html#Margulis ---
Hey, she said it. I have my problems with Griffin's emphasis on unlikely or poorly argued "physical evidence" hypotheses. Then again, maybe she's smarter than me.
She's certainly earned a platform.
We might also note her first husband and father of her son was none other than Carl Sagan, who is much missed today. Would the antiwar crusader have applied his "baloney detection" to the official lies wielded by the imperial regime, as it launched long-planned aggressive war on nations obviously uninvolved in Sept. 11th? Or would he have been more concerned with upturning the generally inconsequential fallacies of more than a few 9/11 skeptics? We'll never know, but most likely he would have done a bit of both. His memory is poorly served by those who impress him posthumously into the fight to maintain official lies, and ludicrously claim their service to the imperial state is done in the proud name of skepticism.
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