Nobel prize winner claims 9/11 wasn't that bad

[A guy called Dave]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7057601.stm
I think this might run for a bit, there's a fair amount of worms in this particular can.

[johnfás]

It was one of the more dramatic terrorist attacks in world history. It had one of the largest fall outs politically, at least it was used as a justification for one. Whether or not it was 'that bad' if you can call it that in terms of human destruction - well any attack is terrible in terms of human destruction but on a scale in comparison to attacks that happen every day and go unreported it wasn't huge. It was probably the most economically significant terrorist attack, I don't think airlines have collapsed and stock exchanges have taken such a tumble following any other such terrorist attack.

[seabhcan]

She compared it to the Brighton bomb of 1984 that killed 5 people.

She's just a crazy old woman.