Jeremy Sagan, the son of Carl Sagan from his first wife, biologist Lynn Margulis told Andrew Steele, the host of 9/11 Free Fall that he has grown suspicious of the 9/11 story and believes it is all a big “cover up.”

“Well, on first seeing it— I mean anyone seeing it can see that there’s something suspicious about it. I remember and –I think it was New Year’s 2002, I was at a friend’s house, you know, and some parents of another friends, and they were saying Bush could never do something like this because he was incompetent. But in retrospect, now that I think about it, it’s true,” Sagan explained. “I don’t think Bush could really do it, but that’s why they had him skirted off into Florida, to, you know, get him a bit out of the way. In retrospect, you look at that and its obvious it was a controlled demolition.”

Steel did ask Sagan what kind of evidence he had to back up his beliefs,

“I think the visual evidence is the most compelling. I mean you have like falling, free fall. You have molten steel coming out of the building. I mean, obviously, also — the evidence of thermite is very compelling,” he explained. “The other thing I should say, if you look at building seven, the way everything was known before it happened. And the way it was reported in the media before it happened, that doesn’t happen. [laughs] You know?”

He criticized the government for not releasing all the data about the attacks, especially some computer simulated data. Sagan a computer programmer himself said,

“The fact that they won’t release it is just proof, because science is peer-reviewed and all the data is made available so everyone can come to a consensus, and that’s what moves us along.” “It’s a cover-up, basically,” he continued. “I mean, you can’t release data that is going to show you are wrong. Why would you do it?”

Sagan also went on to mention that his late mother also believed the events to be suspicious and that she felt the 9/11 Commission was “a fraud.”

“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.” Margulis said. “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.”

I guess being born the son of genius does not make one immune to believing useless nonsense. One can only hope his father would set him straight had he been alive to witness his son go the route of unhinged conspiracy theorist.

You can listen to Sagan’s full interview below:

(h/t Raw Story)