Really hate to bump this dying thread, but, since I'm here, I'll inject a little real truth into your thread before I go.
people who subscribe to these conspiracy theories generally subscribe to one or more other conspiracies.
False. I've never subscribed to any conspiracy theory before or after 9/11. For you or anyone else to claim that every single thing you've ever been told or taught is the absolute truth, is a psychological problem in and of itself.
the conspiracy theorists aren't subscribing to these conspiracy claims out of any real consideration of any evidence.
For there being such a major "lack of evidence", there sure are alot of very well-educated and highly-credible people that are seeing some sort of evidence, and would beg to differ. Seems to me that you would rather claim that some of our world's top schools are just giving people PhD's like candy with no real education. I would suggest having another look at my psychology thread and heeding some of their advice.
They subscribe to these conspiracy claims simply because they want to believe they are true
More falseness. I believed and supported the official conspiracy theory, supported Bush, supported it all. Then I started seeing alternate conspiracy theories, did my own research, and found the official conspiracy theory to be false.
It has nothing to do with what we want to believe. I wanted to believe the official conspiracy theory. Available evidence will not allow that to happen any longer, regardless of what we want to believe.
as they serve as an emotional outlet for their own antiestablishment outlook on life.
Never had any outlook on the "establishment" before 9/11, so this point is irrelevant.
Again, this article and thread are a failure as it attempts to falsely describe what certain people do or do not believe. This article is nowhere near anything that could describe me, so, ultimately, this article is likely propaganda fed to the gullible in the form of a theory as to why people believe in conspiracy theories.
Too bad it does not and cannot describe those of us that subscribe to alternate 9/11 conspiracy theories. The evidence is too abundant and damning to believe in anything else.

