Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction

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This is a letter published in a peer-reviewed open access civil engineering journal. The authors, Dr. Steven E. Jones, Dr. Frank M. Legge, Kevin R. Ryan, Anthony F. Szamboti, James R. Gourley are known for hypothesizing that on 9/11 WTC 1, 2 & 7 were destroyed by controlled demolition. In their letter they seek to reach agreement with NIST, FEMA and others on grounds for "productive discussion" on the subject of the destruction of WTC 1, 2 & 7, based on the 14 points outlined in the letter, which are based on assertions of fact already made by NIST (and FEMA; NIST has not yet released it's report on WTC 7, the 47 story sky-scraper that also completely "collapsed" on 9/11).

Given that the authors agree with the NIST and FEMA reports on all 14 points listed in the article, what's the issue? The issue is that the NIST and FEMA reports appear to be grossly inadequate, contradicting both their own conclusions and established facts. Read and see for yourself whether or not you agree; now that this has been published, the scientific community is debating it. It will be interesting to see if "debunkers" can get a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal that rebuts these 14 points made by NIST (and FEMA), while still supporting the official theory that plane damage, jet fuel fires and 15 and 30 stories of building mass were the cause of the complete destruction of 95 and 80 stories of steel-frame and concrete sky-scrapers.

Coinciding with the publication of Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction in the Open Access OCIEJ, Dr. Jones published it in full with commentary at 911Blogger.com. Dr. Jones notes:

"With publication in an established civil engineering journal, the discussion has reached a new level - JREF'ers and others may attack, but unless they can also get published in a peer-reviewed journal, those attacks do not carry nearly the weight of a peer-reviewed paper. It may be that debunkers will try to avoid the fourteen issues we raise in the Letter, by attacking the author(s) or even the journal rather than addressing the science - that would not surprise me.

Professor Chomsky wrote to several, who passed it on to me: "You, or anyone who agrees with you, has a very simple task. Since the evidence is so obvious and compelling, submit an article about it to Science, or Nature, or even Scientific American, or more technical journals, say those in civil engineering, where your article can refute the conclusions of the professional society of civil engineers… To date, no one has been willing to submit an article -- at least, after probably hundreds of inquiries to Truth Movement advocates, no one has been able to mention one..."

Would someone who has received this note from Prof. Chomsky please send him a copy of the downloaded paper? Perhaps we can build a bridge with him. You might note that the paper is published in a "technical journal [one of those in civil engineering," to use his own words, which I took as sort of a challenge. I have published before in Nature (e.g., May 1986 and April 1989) AND Scientific American (July 1987), and this paper in a civil engineering journal I consider to be a very significant step in the history."

For additional info on Chomsky's views on 9/11, see oilempire.us:

Where Noam will not roam - Chomsky's limited dissent on 9/11 and JFK

Polls regarding the World Trade Center Destruction:

A September 6, 2007 Zogby Poll found 67% fault the 9/11 Commission for not investigating the anomalous collapse of World Trade Center 7

August 1, 2006 Scripps News Poll "16 percent of Americans speculate that secretly planted explosives, not burning passenger jets, were the real reason the massive twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed."

You can read more about the theories of the authors at:

Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice - STJ911.org & Journalof911Studies.com