Steve,
deleted tons of hot air Tom wrote in an effort to justify his differentiating between "expert" and "amateur".
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Only the MOST ignorant, and the most arrogant, of amateurs would describe the difference between "amateur" and "expert" as "hot air".
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My, my, my. Who was it that came out with a fairly detailed explanation of what happened to the towers on September 13, 2001? So by your definition he is an amateur and should not be listened to.
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I assume that you are talking about Zdenek Bazant.
Bazant offered his opinion AFTER the an analysis of one of the world's top experts.
That same expert wrote (in 1991) the textbook "Stability of Structures: Elastic, Inelastic, Fracture and Damage Theories". And 5 other textbooks on structural mechanics, chapters in 20 more textbooks, about 470 peer-reviewed published research articles. And a bunch more.
That expert was, of course, Zdenek Bazant. Bazant did his calculations, which were certainly based upon analyses done in the decades before 9/11. And THEN wrote his paper.
And in that paper, Bazant was exquisitely careful to point out that his was a preliminary analysis.
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And the remainder of this post is a PERFECT example of one error after another. Made because you're an amateur at this, Steve.
"Peer reviewed" does NOT mean "right". It means "lacking glaring errors". (Even a competent one, to which none of those papers appears to have been subjected.)
Until a finding has been independently verified, it is NOT accepted as true. It is not even accepted as probable. Professionals look at the authors, the methodology and the results and attach their own (variable) probability to the results.
Well now you are moving your goal posts ahead of any possible argument I might have made so as to not appear to have moved those goal posts afterwards.
Wrong.
Those are not MY goalposts. Those are science's goal posts. They have been exactly where I described them for the last century or so.
But let's take what you say at face value. GREAT, who has independently verified the official NIST report? And I don't mean simply implementing safety protocals based on their findings, I mean a true independent verification of NIST's final report?
What's that you say? No one? OH... MY...GOD!
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Wrong again.
They have been "peer reviewed" and independently corroborated. Because they are so enormous, it was not done in the usual way. But it has been done.
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Hey here are some nice papers that refute most of the Official Conspiracy Theory...
http://journalof911studies.com/
Now since 9/11 truth has so many good articles and papers out there we can simply ignore the flawed work of NIST and the 9/11 commision
Wrong.
You THINK that these papers have refuted NIST because you are an amateur.
dude, i'm not the one calling others names here like "juvenile" and "kid" etc..
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Dude... ??
I called your arguments & your tactics "juvenile".
Based on your history, you've earned the title.
Now, if you'd like to show that you not, why don't you put on your big-boy pants and answer the following SUBSTANTIVE issue.
You erroneously claimed that everyone was avoiding answering your assertion that people were avoiding your "psychological aspects of disagreeing with the gov't position".
I didn't avoid the question. Neither did several others. We stated that there are no threats to life, property or employment for disagreeing with the government. There are no consequences for calling the president, VP, and the entire administration murderers, traitors, conspirators, etc.
As proof:
Alex Jones lives & breathes. And laughs all the way to the bank.
Steven Jones, ditto.
Griffin, Fetzer, Lear, Stubblebine, etc. ditto.
bill smith, deep & you., ditto.
Watergate.
Iran - Contra.
Pentagon Papers
Torture of detainees
etc. etc. etc.
All stories that the admin wanted to keep secret. But came out thru anonymous tips.
Some pencil neck geek from the Bush admin attempted to quash the published opinions of an average NASA scientist regarding Global Warming. The scientist told the pencil neck to stuff it, and called up the newspaper. When the dust had settled, the scientist kept publishing EXACTLY what he'd published before (which was 180° to the admin's official position), and the pencil neck was gone. And the ENTIRE admin stopped trying to influence scientific papers.
These examples constitute absolute PROOF that your "psychological intimidation" thesis is utterly wrong.
How about you answer this substantive issue, instead of the "you're calling me immature" nonsense.
Tom
PS. Now, if you want to clarify things, tell us. What grade are you in? Or how long have you been out of school? What is your profession? How long have you been practising?