What Don'tcha Know?

David Plotz has a nice roundup of things we still don't know about the 9/11 atrocities. (The introductions also contains some crazy shit that we now do know.) Some of the Plotzmeister's best tips come courtesy of Edward Jay "Juan" Epstein, whose collection of "fictoids" is old but still worth checking out.

Comments

[Warren]

That 'fictoid' link was excellent.

Thanks

[Forbes Tuttle]

What you don't know, in his opinion. Wow, and he's at Slate. Who is David Plotz, anyways? What were those questions regarding editors and on-line media...

[Douglas Fletcher]

Jeez, amazing that we don't know yet all the bad things that are going to happen. Thanks, Dave.

[Brad S]

I'm not sure I agree with him labeling all of these things as "misconceptions." As misconception is something that most people believe to be true which is in fact definitely false. For example, terrorists or their supporters profiting from buying put options on airline stocks - Plotz calls this a misconception, then goes on to acknowledge that this very well may have happened, there's simply no 100%, beyond the shadow of a doubt, concrete proof that it happened. Plotz does this with a bunch of other things as well. What he might have called these things (rather than misconceptions) is "unproven theories taken by many as fact".