Well, I have to question Mr. Jones' theories here. I personally saw video LIVE on CNN of a plane hitting the second WTC tower with such force that it caused the building to catch on fire. It was quite some time before the first building started to fall, clearly collapsing from the weight of the upper stories on the weakened framing and support structures of the building, onto the lower floors, which was enough weight to bring the tower down. The same was true for the second building falling down. Now, don't you think that if Bush really did want to blow up the World Trade Center, he would have just blown it up with explosives?
Oh, no. But this professor has found RESIDUE to prove otherwise, right? Well, he has indeed proclaimed to have found residue, but his findings have not been published in ANY scientific journals, which is a must for any groundbreaking data so that his findings can be reviewed by other scientists around the country, and have only been reviewed by his peers and friends. [Source: McIlvain, Ryan (December 5, 2005). Censor rumors quelled] Well, of course his friends are going to agree with him, they're all liberals as well, and don't think for themselves! Whatever he says comes straight from the heavens. No questions asked. Did anyone ever think that the same residue that he found might have come from one of the many businesses that were housed in the WTC towers? Might be a possibility, since the purported residue that was found had roughly 110 stories to be hiding on--in each tower.
Now he's trying to literally shove his controversial (a more fitting phrase might be "widely rejected") findings down his student's throats at BYU, and they're trying like mad to fight back. They're trying to get him removed from teaching, because he can't seem to teach them without trying to set in motion his flaky political agenda. I don't blame them. But comparably asinine groups like the ACLU are stepping in and trying to prevent that from happening. I do agree that everyone has a right to express their beliefs, just not when you're forced to take part in those beliefs, such as in a classroom. I had a severely right leaning AP government teacher last year, and he was not afraid to express his beliefs in the classroom. But at least he would allow anyone who had beliefs contrary to his to be heard by the rest of the classroom. But when the school has to issue public statements regarding this professor, you know that he's taking it a little too far:
The BYU physics department has issued a statement: "The university is aware that Professor Steven Jones's hypotheses and interpretations of evidence regarding the collapse of World Trade Center buildings are being questioned by a number of scholars and practitioners, including many of BYU's own faculty members. Professor Jones' department and college administrators are not convinced that his analyses and hypotheses have been submitted to relevant scientific venues that would ensure rigorous technical peer review." The Fulton College of Engineering and Technology department has also added, "The structural engineering faculty in the Fulton College of Engineering and Technology do not support the hypotheses of Professor Jones.".
[Source: McIlvain, Ryan (November 14, 2005). Prof. calls for 9/11 investigation]
So even if you don't agree with me somehow that maybe the buildings collapsed under enormous stress because two fully loaded, fully fueled 747 jets flew into them with an incredible amount of force, I would start asking questions about the credibility of his "scientific evidence" that "proves" otherwise. So please, in the future, and especially in college, don't just trust everything that comes out of some wacko's mouth. That seems to happen a lot more frequently with our friends from the left, so I would severely question anything that sounds out of the ordinary. Actually do some research and look into things before you turn around and regurgitate that same information, because it could turn out to be completely false.
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