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David Ray Griffin (born August 8, 1939 in Wilbur, Washington) is a retired American professor of philosophy of religion and theology; and a political writer, publishing numerous books claiming that elements of the US government were involved in the attacks of September 11, 2001.[1][2] Along with John B. Cobb, Jr., he founded the Center for Process Studies in 1973, a research center of Claremont School of Theology that seeks to promote the common good by means of the relational approach found in process thought.[3]
David Ray Griffin | |
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Born | Wilbur, Washington, U.S. | August 8, 1939
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Process theology |
Doctoral students | Thomas Jay Oord |
Main interests |
Griffin has been described and criticized as a conspiracy theorist.[4] David Aaronovitch in the London Times in 2008 wrote: "Griffin believes that no plane hit the Pentagon (despite hundreds of people seeing it) and that the World Trade Centre was brought down by a controlled demolition. There isn't a single point of alleged fact upon which Griffin's barking theory hasn't itself been demolished."[5] Griffin and others have disputed both points of this criticism. On the Pentagon, Griffin has claimed a consensus among 9/11 researchers that "regardless of what hit the Pentagon, the Pentagon was not struck by AA 77 under the control of al-Qaeda."[6] On the World Trade Center, AIA architect Richard Gage, after listening to a radio interview with Griffin in 2006, established Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, which now has over 3,000 professional architects and engineers disputing the claim that the WTC buildings were brought down by fires resulting from airplane attacks.[7][8] Griffin's view is further supported by a recent study at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, whose authors wrote: "The principal conclusion of our study is that fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of NIST and private engineering firms that studied the collapse."[9]
one of the world's most popular 9/11 conspiracy theorists
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