IT'S A CONSPIRACY, MAN!: The Star Tribune has an article on the various investigations and litigation surrounding the plane crash last October that killed Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone. The main focus of the article is on the plane's pilot, Richard Conry, who is believed by most to be responsible for the crash. The families of those killed in the crash, the story tells us, are represented by noted anti-tobacco lawyer (and 2000 US Senate candidate) Michael Ciresi.
But then the Strib piece totally goes off the rails in telling us about James Fetzer, a philosophy professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth who has written extensively on his website, AssassinationScience.com, that Wellstone's death was a political assassination- and he explains the lack of forensic evidence by attributing the killing to "futuristic weaponry."
Showing once again that the standards we now require for teaching college students aren't what they used to be, Fetzer actually teaches critical thinking and logic at UMD.