Keeping Up With the Jones'

The Jones boys are at it again! Today, Dr. Steven Jones, former professor of Physics at BYU, was a guest on the Alex Jones Show to promote his new "peer-reviewed" paper. The paper is entitled "Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction" and has been peer reviewed by Bentham Science Publishers.

If you haven't read the paper, I seriously recommend you take a look at it. On its face, it is the most ridiculous example of science I have ever seen. At no point in the paper do Jones and Co. attempt to provide any proof of controlled demolishion. Instead, they just refer back to Jones' previous paper that was NOT peer reviewed in a Civil Engineering journal. Forget for a minute that this guy was once associated with Jim "Space Beam" Fetzer ,and nevermind that his own PEERS rejected the previous paper (flashback provided by debunking911.com):
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Letter to the Editor
Refuting 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

April 09, 2006
Dear Editor,

After reading in the Daily Herald the presentations made by Professor Steven E. Jones (BYU Physics) to students at UVSC and BYU, I feel obligated to reply to his "Conspiracy Theory" relating to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (9/11/01).

I have studied the summary of the report by FEMA, The American Society of Civil Engineers and several other professional engineering organizations. These experts have given in detail the effects on the Towers by the impact of the commercial aircraft. I have also read Professor Jones' (referred to) 42 page unpublished report. In my understanding of structural design and the properties of structural steel I find Professor Jones' thesis that planted explosives (rather than fire from the planes) caused the collapse of the Towers, very unreliable.

The structural design of the towers was unique in that the supporting steel structure consisted of closely spaced columns in the walls of all four sides. The resulting structure was similar to a tube. When the aircraft impacted the towers at speeds of about 500 plus mph, many steel columns were immediately severed and others rendered weak by the following fires. The fires critically damaged the floors systems. Structural steel will begin to lose strength when heated to temperatures above 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. Steel bridge girders are bent to conform to the curved roadway by spot heating flanges between 800 and 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. It is easy to comprehend the loss of carrying capacity of all the structural steel due to the raging fires fed by the jet's fuel as well as aircraft and building contents.

Before one (especially students) supports such a conspiracy theory, they should investigate all details of the theory. To me a practicing structural engineer of 57 continuous years (1941-1998), Professor Jones' presentations are very disturbing.

D. Allan Firmage

Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering, BYU

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This is what the scientific community, or at least 99.99999% of it, thinks of Jones' research.

Oh, and lets not forget the other co-authors and their unqualified opinions. We have good ole' Kevin Ryan (yup, the water expert), followed by Frank M. Legge, Anthony F. Szamboti, and James R. Gourley; none of which are civil or structural engineers or controlled demolishion experts. These "professionals" prefer smarmy (;] J-Berm) jabs at the NIST report, to actual science. When David Ray Griffin is cited as a source on buildings collapsing, you're going down the wrong road, guys.

Hopefully, the effects of this new paper are minimal, and I'm sure they will be, because the entire paper has been debunked already. Don't try telling that to Alex Jones, though, or you'll be hanged without remorse when the truth comes out about 9/11 being an inside job. After all, "debunkers don't actually debunk anything" right, Alex? All they do is bother you with facts and science and all that crazy stuff. Alex Jones' truth about 9/11 is that, without it, his pockets would be lighter and his audience of CT goofs would be chasing Bigfoot instead.