Deep Blade Journal

Split in the 9/11 “truth movement”

I hadn’t been there in a while, so I was pretty amazed to find THIS. It’s a point-by-point response from Jim Fetzer to a letter written by BYU physicist Steven E. Jones. Jones apparently has found the direction of ultra-conspiracist Fetzer too whacky even for him and has parted company with the 9/11 “scholars for truth.”

Here is an excerpt:

Jones: This is to inform you that I (along with chemist Kevin Ryan and many others) have withdrawn from association with Jim Fetzer (JF) and “his” version of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, and to provide reasons for this action.

1. On the Scholars web site he manages (www.st911.org), Jim Fetzer casts aspersions on my research regarding the use of thermates at the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001 — which is fine as long as he provides serious technical objections, which he has not done. At the same time, JF is promoting on the web site notions that energy-beams from WTC 7 or from space knocked the Towers down.
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Here you will find Jim’s assertion that energy beams directed from WTC 7, or from space, may be the “fascinating” explanation for what caused the Twin Towers to collapse. He also here discusses “falling grand pianos.” My sincere efforts to correct his evident errors/misinformation have been twisted and distorted until I want no more to do with such “tar-baby” discussions.

Fetzer’s response: I have become convinced that the extent of the destruction of the World Trade Center, the fact that the bathtub survived functionally intact, and the existence of “toasted” vehicles as much as a half mile to a mile-and-a-half away is, in my opinion, very unlikely to be explainable on the basis of termite/thermate, even in combination with other explosives. If we want to get serious about what happened in New York, we have to consider a broader range of alternative explanations. That is not “casting aspersions”; on the contrary, that is what science is all about. If we do not consider all of the possible alternatives, we may never discover what happened because we omitted the true hypothesis on a priori or political or psychological grounds that were independent of logic and evidence. Science can be messy, complex, and controversial. Welcome to the search for truth! If thermate/thermate can provide a more adequate explanation than the alternatives, then he will have been proven to have been right; but you can’t do that without considering the alternatives!

Energy beams from space? Yeah, that’s messy science all right. I don’t think I need to say much more about this.