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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Press release from Scholars for 9/11 Truth February 1, 2007:

"Members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a non-partisan organization of students, experts and scholars dedicated to exposing falsehoods and revealing truths about 9/11, have some bones to pick with CBS NEWS for an article entitled, "Dangerous World Fuels Conspiracy Theorists" (30 January 2007). According to James H. Fetzer, the society's founder, "It is chock full of false assertions, even including misidentification of Steven Jones, my former co-chair, as the society 's founder."

"That is rather rich," Fetzer said. "Steve and I have had a parting of the ways over differences in our attitude and approach toward the science and the politics of 9/11 research. But if he had been 'the founder', he should have been conducting a 'house cleaning', not abandoning ship." The split between them, Fetzer added, has had a beneficial effect. "A cult-like atmosphere had developed around him, which I considered to be bad for scientific research on 9/11."

The CBS report focuses on Gary Welz, an adjunct lecturer at John Jay Criminal College and Lafayette University, who told a CBS reporter, Alfonso Serrano, that he had left Scholars in December following Jones "after other prominent members of Scholars began promoting wacky explanations for the fall of the twin towers." Fetzer replied, "That's wrong on several accounts, including that the Twin Towers did not 'fall' but disintegrated from massive sources of energy."

"Which theories are 'wacky' appears to depend upon how much you know about a subject," observed Judy Wood, a prominent member of Scholars. "When you consider the extent of the devastation of the World Trade Center, the very modest damage to its foundation, and as many as 1,400 'toasted' cars as much as a mile from ground zero, for example, any explanation that is based upon conventional explosives, including Steve Jones' own hypothesis, is going to look 'wacky' to those who know enough about the evidence in this case."

Although Jones has suggested that thermite and thermate could have brought down the Twin Towers, in a recent chapter in a new book edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott, 9/11 and American Empire (2007), Jones expresses astonishment that the top thirty floors of the South Tower started to fall but "turned mostly to powder in mid-air," an effect that his hypothesis cannot explain. "Indeed," Fetzer said, "other recognized scholars, such as Webster Griffin Tarpley, 9/11: Synthetic Terror (2005), have observed that an adequate explanation of the devastation to the WTC will almost certainly require the use of high-tech, directed energy weapons."

Among the claims CBS reported that are inaccurate or outdated, the statistics for skepticism from a Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll have been superseded by a New York Times/CBS poll conducted last October, which showed that 53% of Americans doubt The 9/11 Report and 28% reject it completely, which means that 81% of the American people don't believe what the government has told them. "I don't quite understand how a CBN NEWS report could overlook the results of a poll in which CBS participated," Fetzer observed.

Wood pointed out that Jones' hypothesis is based on three primary sources of evidence: studies of dust samples, a waterfall-like flow of molten metal from the South Tower, and photographs that show workmen peering into a cavern glowing with molten metal. "I think Steve needs to think more about his own evidence," she said. "The dust samples were non-random and, if these photographs were authentic, the heat should have melted the skin from their faces." ...

Fetzer said, "another student of the case, Frank Greening, discovered a possible alternative explanation for the waterfall-like flow of molten metal, which Jones had insisted had to be molten iron caused by thermite or thermate. "Apparently, Fuji Bank had installed a massive assemblage of server-sized lead batteries around the 80th floor. Since lead melts at a much lower temperature than steel," Fetzer added, "that might explain this peculiar phenomenon, which was distinctive to this location."

[...]"The situation is even more awkward for the government than that," said Wood. "The buildings are actually turning to dust from the top down. It is as though two enormous trees were turning to sawdust before our eyes. The concrete floors, the desks, chairs, computers, even human beings and other living things, are being pulverized by some massive source of energy, which neither Jones' hypothesis nor the official account can explain. We are attempting to determine how this was done, but it probably involved the use of weapons that are classified. There's nothing 'wacky' about trying to figure it out."[...]

The adjunct math lecturer it cites, Gary Welz, told CBS NEWS that he is not a "conspiracy theorist" because he is not convinced there was a government conspiracy. "If that's his position," Fetzer replied, "that's very peculiar. I can't imagine a serious member of Scholars who wouldn't be able to demonstrate that the government has been lying to the American people based upon studies at our web site, 911scholars.org. For CBS NEWS to put out a misleading and false report without consulting relevant experts," he observed, "makes this a stellar example of irresponsible reporting. It's a hatchet job!"

"A phone call could have cleared up these misconceptions," Fetzer said, "but Alfonso probably knew how he wanted to spin this. We have proven that the official account cannot possibly be true and are trying to figure out how it was done." He smiled and said, "It is ironic that more accurate information about Scholars for 9/11 Truth can be found in HUSTLER than on CBS NEWS."...

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