| | Skeptics cannot deny that the helix staircase exists, as many visit it annually. They also cannot deny that it lacks a center supporting column as other spiral staircases have support. Skeptics have denied that the Loretto staircase can support much weight, but the foregoing photo proves them wrong about that too. | | Skeptics cannot deny that the helix staircase exists, as many visit it annually. They also cannot deny that it lacks a center supporting column as other spiral staircases have support. Skeptics have denied that the Loretto staircase can support much weight, but the foregoing photo proves them wrong about that too. |
| − | ''Snopes'' tries mightily to downplay the achievement and dispel the mystery, but its arguments are inconsequential. For example, it implies that a side connector added later (and visible above), to stop the springiness of the stairs, is somehow a support.<ref>https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stairway-from-heaven/</ref> It plainly is not. ''Snopes'' also tries to disparage the original staircase as possibly being unsafe because it lacked a hand-railing, but that obviously misses the point because a hand-railing was trivial to add when desired. The ''Snopes'' analysis concludes with a slap at the private ownership of the chapel, by saying that they somehow have "a strong financial motive" to perpetuate a legend, as though anyone is getting rich off this. | + | ''Snopes'' tries to downplay this achievement and dispel this mystery, but its arguments are unpersuasive. For example, ''Snopes'' implies that a side connector added later (and visible above), to stop the springiness of the stairs, is somehow a support.<ref>https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stairway-from-heaven/</ref> It plainly is not. ''Snopes'' also tries to disparage the original staircase as possibly being unsafe because it lacked a hand-railing, but that obviously misses the point and the hand-railing was trivial to add when desired. The ''Snopes'' analysis concludes with a slap at the private ownership of the chapel, by saying that they somehow have "a strong financial motive" to perpetuate a legend, as though anyone is getting rich off this. |
| − | Wikipedia's entry about this staircase likewise suffers from [[liberal bias]]. The wood is not even from [[New Mexico]], which Wikipedia confirms but then ignores how that and other undeniable facts confirm the miracle. | + | Wikipedia's entry about this staircase likewise suffers from [[liberal bias]]. The wood is not even from [[New Mexico]], which Wikipedia confirms but then ignores how that and other undeniable facts confirm this miracle. |