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Revisiting 9/11/2001 --Applying the Scientific Method

Dr. Steven E. Jones | 15.05.2007 16:25 | Analysis | History | Terror War | Sheffield | World

Dr. Steven Jones has published a new paper called "Revisiting 9/11/2001 --Applying the Scientific Method" at the Journal of 9/11 Studies, the introduction follows, download the attached PDF for the full article.

In this paper I focus on the application of the scientific method to the study of what really happened on 9/11/2001, particularly in the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings [1]. There is something here to look at in depth: this is serious business. It is not just "nutty fringe science" or "conspiracy theory" that can be rejected without even considering the data. There is need for scientific scrutiny as I hope to demonstrate in this paper. In fact my colleagues and I now feel that we have sufficient data to conclude that the collisions of jets with the two Towers are NOT sufficient to explain the complete and rapid collapses of both Towers and WTC 7. We conclude that the evidence is compelling that the destruction of the WTC buildings involved planted cutter charges (such as explosives and incendiaries). We will consider this evidence. [2]



1 This paper is based on a talk I gave at the University of California at Berkeley on November 7, 2006, with important updates.

2 See  http://journalof911studies.com/volume/200609/Why_Indeed_Did_the_WTC_Buildings_Completely_Collapse_Jones_Thermite_World_Trade_Center.pdf . Fortunately, there is now a body of extensive research gathered in the peer-reviewed books cited above and in the Journal of 9/11 Studies. That is the way science proceeds, with observations, hypotheses, experiments and published papers. For a more extensive treatment of the study of 9/11 events than can be provided in one paper, I refer the reader especially to  http://journalof911studies.com/ . Here you will find an ever-expanding set of papers relating to the study of "What really happened on 9/11/2001?" The issue, however, is not just understanding, but also a quest to seek justice based on the findings.

Dr. Steven E. Jones
- Homepage: http://journalof911studies.com/

Additions

Movies

15.05.2007 18:09

These 3 movies address the matter of the controlled demolition of the WTC buildings:

Improbable Collapse
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4026073566596731782

September 11 Revisited
 http://www.911revisited.com/video.html

9/11 Mysteries
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003

Well worth watching if you haven't allready...

CT


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See also...

15.05.2007 17:00

For a good overview of where the 9/11 truth movement has got to on issues other than the controlled demolition of the 3 skyscrapers:

The American Empire and 9/11
David Ray Griffin
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/369677.html

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"Reader"?

15.05.2007 19:59

not me

Reader


Those myths de-bunked

16.05.2007 13:39

In the interests of fairness and balance, presumably the way to get to the truth, why don't you read this countervailing site which destroys the myths above.

 http://www.debunking911.com/index.html

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Debunking the debunkers

16.05.2007 14:07

Debunking 9/11 Debunking
Debunking 9/11 Debunking

It's telling that those defending the rulers of the US Empire can only manage paste links to crap sites -- can't you read the paper from Steven Jones and come up with something a bit more substantial, I mean if you are going to troll you could do a lot better.

David Ray Griffin has debunked the debunkers like 911myths in his Debunking 911 Debunking book:

 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Debunking-11-Mechanics-Defenders-Conspiracy/dp/156656686X

Hopefully a PDF of this will be circulating soon so you don't have to spend a tenner on it, in the meantime you could listen to him on Guns and Butter:

Debunking 9/11 Debunking

Interview with author and theologian, Dr. David Ray Griffin, on his new book, "Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory". Dr. Griffin takes on four major semi-official publications: The Popular Mechanics book, "Debunking 9/11 Myths"; the Kean/Hamilton book, "Without Precedent"; Vanity Fair's, "9/11 Live the NORAD Tapes"; and NIST's "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions", as well as recent articles in "The Progressive", "Counterpunch", "The Nation", etc. Rational versus irrational conspiracy theories; good science versus bad science; the stand down; psychological resistance to the evidence.

 http://gunsandbutter.net/archives.php?si=183

Amy


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