Titanic: Why she collided, why she sank, why she should never have sailed

[Rob Lawes]

Thumbing through the online news this morning I stumbled across this item.

New book claims little-known safety rule may have doomed the Titanic and the 1,500 on board | Daily Mail Online

I don't think I need to say too much more.

 

[Steven Christian]

Well the article did have some nice pictures. Other than that...

 

[Arun Vajpey]

Pathetic.

 

[marina_irc]

I've noticed that Mr. Molony seems to think that Englishmen seem to have a complete inability to display initiative like they're all junior officers under Darth Vader. I guess all those hundreds of times each year that British vessels are traveling along a coast to their right and turn into the beach and run aground according to the rules of the road prove he's right... Oh, wait...

 

[Mila]

Mr Molony continues: 'Titanic said she made only one manouevre. But she likely actually made two. And they were contradictory. Costing the whole ship and all aboard.'

Titanic said?

 

[Samuel Halpern]

Some people would do or write just about anything to make a buck. Molony has been known to write fiction before.

 

[Rob Lawes]

This is what happens when you stop putting your work forward for peer review and have the ability to access a publisher to push out whatever you like.

Even those (including myself) with a relatively broad and shallow knowledge of Titanic knew about the bunker fire years before the "new evidence" documentary. It must be the case of the first documentary in history to have been thoroughly debunked before it was released on the world.

 

[Steven Christian]

Yes. I was really disappointed with that documentary. You think if your going to put out a theory like that you could at least find a picture with the "smudge" in the right spot. But maybe I'm just asking too much.

 

[Samuel Halpern]

But maybe I'm just asking too much.

Why let facts get in the way of a good story?

 

[Seungho Kang]

Why are people so attracted to these conspiracy theories? It doesnt mean anything other than the article attracting views.

 

[Brad Rousse]

Conspiracy theories are seductive: they are built on the premise of secret knowledge. You're too smart and too clever to be fooled by Them, because unlike all these other fools you KNOW the Titanic was actually the Olympic; that Bush blew up the Twin Towers; that Earth is flat; that the Moon landings were all filmed on a studio... all you have to do is watch a few videos on YouTube and you've taken the red pill.

 

[Steven Christian]

Conspiracy theories are seductive: they are built on the premise of secret knowledge. You're too smart and too clever to be fooled by Them, because unlike all these other fools you KNOW the Titanic was actually the Olympic; that Bush blew up the Twin Towers; that Earth is flat; that the Moon landings were all filmed on a studio... all you have to do is watch a few videos on YouTube and you've taken the red pill.

And they sell a lot of books. I've looked up authors before and some thats all they write about. Not just one conspiracy but damn near every conspiracy. Its their bread and butter.

 

[Mila]

Conspiracy theories are seductive: they are built on the premise of secret knowledge. You're too smart and too clever to be fooled by Them, because unlike all these other fools you KNOW the Titanic was actually the Olympic; that Bush blew up the Twin Towers; that Earth is flat; that the Moon landings were all filmed on a studio... all you have to do is watch a few videos on YouTube and you've taken the red pill.

A few years ago I put a video of a ship disappearing behind the horizon on YouTube. Little did I know about these conspiracy theories. I have stopped responding and removing comments

 

[Brad Rousse]

A few years ago I put a video of a ship disappearing behind the horizon on YouTube. Little did I know about these conspiracy theories. I have stopped responding and removing comments

This is unfortunately the best way to deal with it; the "infected" are beyond hope and you need to focus on those who can be saved (IE, those who are confused or just starting to think there might be something). How often do we see on this website, for example, that no matter how much evidence is presented for the switch or the coal fire being nonsense that there's always an answer, always a wiggle out, always a goal post shift...

 

[marina_irc]

Shame is, The Irish Aboard the Titanic is a seriously good work. Then he went off the rails with conspiracy theories.