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9/11 theorist not curtailing his research

Bravo Professor Jones, bravo. Why DID a 47 story skyscraper fall in less that 10 seconds? I don't know, but it makes me wonder.

Right or wrong, this man has courage.

And his evidence is difficult to refute.

Instead of branding this man 'unpatriotic' or a 'lunatic' the Government should work with Mr. Jones. If they have nothing to hide then you would think they would have a look at the iron spheres and try to figure out what they are.

Thank you, Daniel -- why indeed did three WTC skyscrapers fall at essentially free-fall speed, especially when only two were hit by planes? We have data which provides crucial answers...

My colleague Kevin Ryan wrote me this morning "They took the high road this time." I think so, too.
The reporter (Tad Walch) was willing to speak about microspheres and red/gray chips which we found in the WTC dust -- and to nudge NIST to take a look at the evidence we have uncovered.

That's what we want -- to have serious scientists and engineers and the public take a look at the data! As Tad Walch correctly quoted me, I love my country and I seek the truth that will help keep us free -- and bring peace and economic stability.

The peer-reviewed paper can be easily accessed by Googling "Fourteen points Bentham". The title of this paper begins with "Fourteen points" and the paper was published in a Civil Engineering journal by Bentham Scientific.


The "Fourteen Points" paper regarding the WTC destruction has been translated into Czech and appears in the Journal of 9/11 Studies (on-line, google that).

The authors hold the copyright to the peer-reviewed paper (our thanks to the respected editors at the Open Civil Engineering Journal) and so we can strongly encourage further translations and publications of the article -- into Spanish, German, French, Italian...
Thanks to Petr Kral for his first translation of this paper.

If you wish to contribute to a translation of this paper, please email me at HardEvidence@gmail.com. Let's take the high road in getting the truth out.

Continue the research, Dr. Jones. I applaud your efforts; thanks to objective investigation such as yours, the truth will be known.

BYU was right to oust this kook.

Steve Jones is a true American hero. His research into 9/11 is making it very difficult to perpetuate the lies surrounding this tragedy.

For six years I believed the official "story"; I no longer do.

For six years I never questioned the official "story", now it's all I can do.

For those of you who want to see how badly we were fooled that day I recoment the following -

YouTube: September Clues

You won't believe how much CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC & FAUX News tricked us. The lies that were broadcast on TV that day.

If you don't have time to watch all 9 parts (rougly 7 minutes a piece), then most certainly take the time to watch parts 3 & 9 - they will blow your mind.

911 Was an Inside Job!

It was foolish for BYU to have fired Dr. Jones. Dr. Jones took a very reasoned approach to the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings, and his research should have been supported by the University. Their hostility toward Dr. Jones is as baffling as the sudden collapses of the twin towers on 9-11.

I have never posted a comment on deseretnews.com. However, this is an issue that really needs to be exposed, and It sounds like Professor Jones is going ab out it the right way. There really are many questions that are just unanswered, and Dr. Jones is seeking to find those answers.

I am concerned the American public had the wool pulled over their eyes, and many decisions that have shaped our country have been on false claims, or at least claims that were not investigated, or allowed to be investigated. Think about it... If anyone suggested anything different than the main stream answer -- Osama was responsible just was not considered an option, rather was laughed at because no one was open to any other answer.

We have a duty to give some time to Dr. Jones and read his article to help expand our minds to what exactly happened on that terrible day.

My hat is off to you Dr. Jones, you have given up your career for a cause you believe in. I respect and admire your dedication.

It's not just the fall of the towers that's suspicious. How about the stand-down of the US Air Force?

It's just not believable that the most powerful military that has ever existed on the planet, with a budget of $500 billion/year, could not protect its own headquarters, even AFTER the WTC towers had been attacked.

How the GOP can campaign as "strong on defense" after that collossal failure is beyond me. Yet no one was fired or demoted for the multiple failures of that day.

But NBC, ABC, CNN ignore all this. Kudos to the Deseret for covering this important news!

Mr. Walch, I hope you don't receive the same treatment that Dr. Jones has by merely doing your job of reporting. He has been doing his job both as a scientist and as a concerned citizen in pointing out scientific flaws in the NIST and FEMA reports. Anyone with a halfway open mind who has reviewed the evidence regarding the collapse of the 3 WTC buildings will come away with the same questions that have prompted Dr. Jones as well as hundreds of other scientists, architects and engineers to pursue the truth as to why the buildings fell. What is so odd about that? Except by doing so you put your career in jeopardy. Visit the website Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth (ae911truth.org). Several of the 911 Commission members themselves said that the administration hindered their investigation.

The melting point of steel is not the point at which it fails. Steel undergoes a phase change at about 740 degC. Even before then, it begins to become more maleable.

The "pancakeing" of the trade centres was preceded by a shock wave that propagated ahead of the collapse zone. There were no shaped charges involved.

Iron-rich spheres and red-gray chips could be created by processes very similar to those generated by shaped charges. Could not the traces of explosives that were allegedly found be left over from the previous bombing in '93?

The conspiracy that you are claiming implies a level of intellegence, coordination and sophistication that, quite frankly, the american people do not possess.

IMHO, bin Laden had 10 times more intellegence than your average conspiracy candidate.

I applaud Dr. Jones for his methodical scientific research into some of the many unanswered questions surrounding 9/11. I am still waiting patiently for the NIST report on WTC7. I'm surprised there isn't more public outcry surrounding it's mysterious and most unusual collapse. Almost 7 years later ans STILL no report.

Thank you, to Tad Walch & the Deseret News for presenting fair & balanced coverage of this issue and the research done by Dr. Steven Jones. He is a man of great integrity and courage.

Should the rest of us engender those qualities we might be worthy to retain the liberty handed to us as a birthright by those who did.

Too many of us are squandering that birthright for a 'mess of pottage'.

I applaud Prof.Jones ,he put his career and reputation on the line for the truth.The truth is horrifying.Watch some of the video presentations on google or youtube by Prof.Jones and use your common sense.
We in Vancouver Canada hosted a 911 Truth conference last June.Professor Jones and his wife came up to join us .What wonderful people.
Do your own research.-winston

dar7yl... who are you trying to answer to? yourself?
Look, you admit that there are hundreds of unexplained phenomena, you even bring your own home-cooked explanations to them (`93 charges??? in the dust flowing all around???).
There must be another investigation - you don't, you can't, know the truth, and presumptive evidence is 100 not in favor of the official explanation.
Do you really prefer to live in a fake world created for you by tv?

It's not like the steel was in a blast furnace. It was covered with asbestos fire-proofing and the fires were so cool that there are photos of people standing in the opening where the plane hit the building, with no flames in sight anywhere.

Besides, fire burns up, not down. How can a fire on the 92nd floor weaken fireproofed steel on floors 1-91?

The towers exploded all the way down to the basement.

You don't have to be a physicist to see this. Anyone who has ever watched logs burn in their fireplace knows how fire makes things collapse: slowly and erratically.

And look at how the Bush admin profited from this! It is their only reason for invading Iraq and Afghanistan, wars they have wanted for a long time. Our bases in Afghanistan are positioned to protect the pipeline they built once we invaded.

Dar7yl,
I have seen the construction drawings(blueprints) of the towers,1 and 2 that is, and no way could they have collapsed as shown without 'help'. The core of the buildings was composed of 47 pre-stressed box section columns, each one approx. 1200mm x 500mm with a wall section of 100mm, gradually tapering up the height of the towers. These in turn had hat trusses at each floor spanning to the exterior steel columns. It was IMPOSSIBLE for the buildings to collapse as they did without the gentle persuasion of explosives.