Steve Jones: Academia’s Oliver Stone (and that’s not good)
Steven Jones is yet another example of why tenure is not such a good thing. If you or your kids are being taught by them be prepared for inane conversation and arguments. The man’s idiocy scares us.
What is his crime? The already-tired conspiracy theory that Muslims didn’t topple the Twin Towers nor did airplanes. It was an “inside” job that employed bombs planted in the buildings.
How does he know this? He talked to a woman who had a near-death experience.
Then he looked at the way the buildings fell down. Buildings have never fallen down like that. (I wonder how many buildings he’s studied that were rammed with wide-body jets while full of jet fuel?).
Of course anyone who knows anything about science knows that the best work comes from people with near-death experiences. Evidently, our creator lets people who are dying in on the universe’s big secrets. Sometimes these people don’t die and they end up possessing all kinds of cool stuff–if we’d just listen to them! Fortunately, Steve Jones has done that.
Hopefully he can finish solving this conspiracy theory and then explain crop circles, Area 51, and the Kennedy assassination to us since mainstream media remains consistently silent on these “inside jobs” too.
A lot of people are already blogging about this so Independent Sources will limit itself to those with superior headines to our own:
I mean, let’s not get into the fact that we know the names of each and every 9/11 hijacker, that they were all Muslim and all members of al Qaeda. If the esteemed professor is correct, someone (Karl Rove? The CIA? The Illuminati? Dread Cthulhu?) would have to conspire with al Qaeda, time the operation perfectly, and hope that no one else in a group of America-hating fanatics would spill the beans.
Collossus: Those crafty Jews …
Muslims not blame …? Whaa? Oh, I get it — the “Muslim” hijackers were really US agents who flew the planes into the Towers and Pentagon! I see!
Mind the Qatar: Tinfoil Alert!
That tinfoil you have been wearing to keep the evil Bush Administration from reading your brainwaves and macking on your karma, is probably not as effective as has been advertised in the Workers Daily.
Decision 08: The Stupidest Stories Die The Hardest
Incredibly, despite the fact that 9/11 is the most photographed, filmed, and discussed event of modern times, people still choose to deny the truth that is right in front of them.
Oblogatory Anecdotes: Mad Scientist at BYU!
Professor Steven E. Jones has not even followed the scientific method to present his theory. No other professor in the world has corroborated his findings; no peer review has even been conducted. His theory flies in the face of every investigation ever conducted. No scientific journal will even publish his theory.
Here is a link to his report so you won’t be biased by our reporting and you can form your own opinion.
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November 12th, 2005 at 11:06 pm
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November 13th, 2005 at 6:57 am
Well…sat whatya will..but, we put a lotta stock in Mr. Jones…
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November 13th, 2005 at 9:03 am
Pingbacks Steve Jones: Academia’s Oliver Stone (and that’s n… Excerpt: Steven Jones is yet another example of why tenure is not such a good thing. If you or your kids are being taught by them be prepared for inane conversation and arguments. The man’s
November 14th, 2005 at 8:41 am
What is his crime? The already-tired conspiracy theory that Muslims didn’t topple the Twin Towers nor did airplanes. It was an “inside” job that employed bombs planted in the buildings.
How does he know this? He talked to a woman who had a near-death experience.
This is, to put it politely, a gross misinterpretation of Professor Jones’ paper, a draft of which you can read here. The Deseret News article you pull that from doesn’t remotely give that impression you describe. Quote:
Jones says he became interested in the physics of the WTC collapse after attending a talk last spring given by a woman who had had a near-death experience. The woman mentioned in passing that “if you think the World Trade Center buildings came down just due to fire, you have a lot of surprises ahead of you,” Jones remembers, at which point “everyone around me started applauding.”
Following several months of study, he presented his findings at a talk at BYU in September.
But I suppose slandering a stranger who disagrees with the conventional wisdom is more important than paying attention to facts.
November 14th, 2005 at 8:48 am
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November 14th, 2005 at 12:29 pm
First off let’s not confuse “conventional wisdom” with crackpot theories cranked out so that people can sell books or put out documentaries or play on people’s fears or stupidity. Along with the various WTC “theories” I’ll group in the levees might have been blown up to kill black people (Spike Lee) and the Jews are behind the bombings in Jordan. You are right, I have no patience for these.
Second, I should have included a link to his original report. I’ll add the link.
Third, my post included “Then he looked at the way the buildings fell down.” Is this a misrepresentation of his work? We both agree that the origination of his interest in this subject came from a woman with a near-death experience that somehow possessed this knowledge. After hearing this, he went off and studied the way the buildings fall–interesting a subject not in his area of expertise.
Since you don’t like our take, I will also add a thorough debunking by Popular Mechanics. link
November 15th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
First off let’s not confuse “conventional wisdom” with crackpot theories cranked out so that people can sell books or put out documentaries or play on people’s fears or stupidity.
I think you’ve got it backwards. The conventional wisdom to which I refer and to which Professor Jones issued his challenge is the one that states the buildings’ collapse was due entirely to structural and thermal damage associated with the aircraft impacts. Have you read the paper? The concerns raised and questions asked are far from “crackpot theories.”
You did indeed say that “Then he looked at the way the buildings fell down.” But what did you write shortly thereafter?
Of course anyone who knows anything about science knows that the best work comes from people with near-death experiences. Evidently, our creator lets people who are dying in on the universe’s big secrets. Sometimes these people don’t die and they end up possessing all kinds of cool stuff–if we’d just listen to them! Fortunately, Steve Jones has done that.
Snark like that is designed to demonstrate base contempt, distract attention, or both. The search for truth needs none of that.
His credibility would be better if he hadn’t been involved in the cold fusion story and his chosen line of professional inquiry were, say, civil engineering or commercial demolition. However, that still doesn’t address the substance of his comments in the paper. Again, have you read it? He knows about the Popular Mechanics article, saying it “focuses on poorly-supported claims” and then pointing to more than three “serious replies” to it. Unless you are referring to a different article (your link doesn’t work)?
Some theories are prima facie baseless. This one deserves attention, if for no other reason than to help him get the National Institute of Standards and Technology to release thousands of pictures and hundreds of hours of video to the public.
November 17th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
Who cares about that near death experience?
Let’s talk about building seven, come on…
November 17th, 2005 at 5:42 pm
Let’s talk about little green men walking among us. Let’s talk about crop circles. Let’s talk about the Apollo missions being faked on a Hollywood soundstage. I love a whacky conspiracy theory as much as anyone (especially when it is as well thought out and documented as you have done it on your site) but come on, do you really, really think you are on to something?
Question: were the London/Madrid bombings part of this too? Is Barbara Boxer in on it? You know that she’s owns Haliburton stock. How about the Jews? I heard that they were all cleared out of the towers right before the planes hit? Did Cheney call the Isralis who warned their people? I guess we can’t trust them to keep a secret.
You guys must love the “Da Vinci Code” and I have to admit I liked it to. The difference is that I see it as fiction. You no doubt see it as “food for thought.”
Regardless, thanks for keeping the world from being a boring place. Now where is my aluminum foil hat?
November 18th, 2005 at 1:05 am
Insider, u’re avoiding my question, I’m not interested in little green men, tho is the kind of topic that interests u a lot, it seems…
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