Everyone was thinking "it was a controlled demolition" or talking about Lazer beams, trying to explain that the plane was edited in, maybe the towers never even existed and were invented by the media. But in reality it was a lot simpler, the Saudis sent people to fly planes into towers. Was the "jet fuel can't melt steel beams", like, purposeful misdirection or were conspiracy theorists just too imaginative for their own good
I think it comes down to people having a really hard time accepting simple explanations for complex, earth-shattering events. "The Saudis sent people to blow up the Twin Towers" doesn't sound satisfying - like, how could something that killed 3000 people and completely reshaped geopolitics be so simple? No, the cause has to be as complicated as the effect. Once you accept that, you have to invent a reality that matches it, which usually involves grasping straws.
And also, when it comes to...
Some people are really just dumb as rocks.