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In a statement made to the Web site patriotsquestion911.com, University of Massachusetts Geosciences professor Lynn Margulis called for a new investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks.

“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,” she wrote in her post made in August, which is also available at truthcult.com.

Margulis claims in her statement that the U.S. government’s involvement in the hijackings and subsequent crashes of the four planes six years ago parallels that of the Nazi party in the burning of the Reichstag building in 1933, with similar motives: the expanding of power and justification of foreign war.

“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,” wrote Margulis. “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.”

Professor Margulis began to believe the government played a part in 9/11 after reading the works of David Ray Griffin, a theologian and one of the chief proponents of 9/11 conspiracy theories. She specifically mentioned “The New Pearl Harbor” and “The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions.”

“The New Pearl Harbor” presents and discusses evidence that Griffin claims proves the Bush administration’s complicity in the destruction of the World Trade Center and the damaging of the Pentagon. “The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions” focuses on the 571-page report released by the 9/11 Commission released in July of 2004 and what Griffin sees as inconsistencies. Griffin says he uses his training in logic to analyze conspiracy theories, finding many of those claiming government involvement in 9/11 to have some weight to them.

The 9/11 truth movement, as it’s often referred to, has come under heavy fire from many, including MIT professor Thomas Eagar.

“These people [in the 9/11 truth movement] use the ‘reverse scientific method’