No
Last year ya'all were demanding statements by experts.
Now that there are lots of qualified experts speaking out,
you imply that qualifications don't mean anything.
Actually Gage was around last year and only parrot's Jones and others who have all been there for quite some time. So who is new?
In matters of explosives we asked for explosives experts. You had Jowenko but he stands pretty much alone in his feild in saying that any CD was involved.
We asked for structural engineers and got Judy Woods who's hypotheses are plain ridiculous, a point you seem in agreement on. Others have put forth Reynolds as an expert. His expertise is in economics and how that applies to any of the collapses is a stretch to say the least.
Griffin? A theologian?
Ryan's expertise was in water quality and he was making pronouncements about steel.
The pilots at P4T cannot do simple physics. Some even require basic math corrections(I once had to point out that someone had calculated a desent rate and it was 60 times to high. Care to guess why?)
Fire experts who have studied the towers are for the greatest part, in agreement that the steel was weakened by heat enough to cause the collapse.
Yes qualifications mean something, we all know that. The qualifications should be in relevent areas which can certainly mean,for example, that despite having a degree in structural engineering it does not make you an expert in steel building construction if your course of work is in dental amalgams. It certainly does not make you an expert on secret directed energy weapons.
As a physicist, Jones is qualified* to say that the the laws of physics eliminate the only other possibility:
Trade Towers collapsed under their own weight in 12 to 14 seconds.
*2 PhD's, Prof. of Physics for 20 years [at a very conservative University]
It doesn't get any more qualified than that!
It makes him an expert in physics. He can then state that the building took approx 10-20% longer to collapse than a chunk of steel falling from the top would take. That's about it. Once he delves into how long it 'should' have taken he is in a feild of expertise for which he has not had any training.
Bazant however does have that training and Bazant claims that the towers would collapse once initial failure had taken place. Others with relevent expertise have shown that fire would suffice, after aircraft impacts, to have caused that initial failure.
When Jones delves into the chemistry of thermite in a forensic situation, he is in another feild other than physics.
Ryan wrote his letter in such a way as to make it appear that it was from UL and not a personal opinion of someone who just happened to work at UL in unrelated division.
If I wrote a letter to the CRTC (Canadian equivalent to the FCC) on my station's letterhead and complained that they had made an error, I'd be out looking for a job in an unrelated feild within 20 minutes of head office finding out. That fact is Ryan tried to pass himself off as greater than he was and must not have thought that through. Basically he lied. If Bush can be said to have lied about Iraq seeking 'yellow cake', then Ryan lied about his position in UL.
