The BBC recently published an article on the ReThink911.org campaign entitled, "Canadians wary of 9/11 explanations - and of US officials," which trotted out several debunked sources that we're very familiar with around here, so for anyone who might find their piece here is some further reading.
"Frank Greening, a nuclear scientist who lives in Hamilton, Ontario, knows the people behind the organisation - truthers, as they are known - well. He first met them years ago."- BBC
From blog contributor Scootle Royale's Top 10 Debunker Fails:
1) Frank Greening's 'Intelligent Thermite'"His research was hardly shocking. It has been backed up by plenty of other experts, including those at Popular Mechanics who published a special report called Debunking the 9/11 Myths." - BBC
In an attempt to reconcile the thermite evidence with the official story, debunker Frank Greening once proposed that aluminium from the planes reacted with rust on the steel structures, "inducing violent thermite explosions", and that this "repeated in a rapidly accelerating, and increasingly violent cascade of destruction", resulting in the global collapse of the towers. In other words, he proposed that the twin towers were destroyed by thermite ... naturally!
In 2006, Gordon Ross responded to Greening's thesis in a hilarious essay entitled Sorry Dr. Greening et al ...
Dr. Greening is, I believe, a chemist so it is only fair to look at this field of study first of all. One of his most well known arguments is that there could have been natural thermite reactions within the tower fires. He lists those ingredients which are necessary for this natural thermite and shows that all of these ingredients were present, so his argument follows that a natural thermite reaction could have taken place. Now I will never claim to be good at chemistry but I know that if I leave margarine, flour, sugar and fruit in a cupboard, when I next open the cupboard I will not find a fruit crumble. Some mechanism is required to convert the ingredients. Similarly, if I take these same ingredients, set them alight and throw them out the window, I still will not get my fruit crumble. The mechanism must have some order. Dr. Greening fails to provide any explanation or narrative for these required mechanisms but rather relies on simply ticking off the ingredients and falling back on the unfailing support of his accolytes. It came as an enormous surprise to me that some educated people have been taken in by this, most notably and recently was Manuel Garcia, in his Counterpunch article. What we are being asked to swallow in place of our absent fruit crumble, is that the tonnes of aluminium aircraft parts were powderised upon impact, thoroughly mixed with tonnes of rust from the towers steel superstructure in exactly the required proportion to form tonnes of thermite, which then hung around for about an hour before distributing itself to key structural points throughout the tower, then igniting in a complex sequence to cause the towers' collapse. It is granted that a good imagination is a requirement for a good scientist, but this just abuses the privilege. Perhaps the name for this natural thermite should instead be intelligent thermite, or intelligent malevolent thermite.As both a 9/11 truther and a Darwinism heretic, I find the fruit crumble analogy and 'intelligent malevolent thermite' designation doubly scrumptious. It is hard to believe anyone with the slightest semblance of rationality, never mind a professional chemist, would seriously suggest such a thing, but what do you expect from someone who denies Newton's third law?!
Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality
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Editor’s note: This is Part 10 of 10 (see Part 9), the conclusion of an extensive report by 9/11 researcher Adam Taylor that exposes the fallacies and flaws in the arguments made by the writers and editors of Popular Mechanics (PM) in the latest edition of Debunking 9/11 Myths. We encourage you to submit your own reviews of the book at Amazon.com and other places where it is sold. (Quotes from PM are shown in red and with page numbers.)"Jonathan Kay, an editor at the National Post and author of Among the Truthers, said 9/11 conspiracy theories resonate for a reason." - BBC
Debunking Jonathan Kay, his book Among the Truthers, and Other 'Debunkers'
From ReThink911.org:
ReThink911 Keeps Building 7 in the Headlines
Let the BBC Editor Know the Public Doesn’t Buy Their One-Sided Coverage
Plus: NY Times Billboard Continues through December!
Yesterday the BBC published an article about the ongoing ReThink911 ad campaign in Ottawa. Featured on the BBC’s News homepage still today, the article has been seen by hundreds of thousands of readers.
This
piece marks the fifth mainstream news article about ReThink911’s Ottawa
campaign since the announcement of the campaign on November 20. But
unlike its Canadian counterparts, the BBC has a tendency for falseness
and one-sidedness rivaled only by the likes of Fox News.
Tell the BBC Editor Their Reporting Is a Journalistic Disgrace
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Dear Ms. Milne,
The
BBC’s article on the ReThink911 ad campaign in Ottawa is a journalistic
disgrace. The number of false claims and one-sided maneuvers is simply
astounding.
Most
disturbing is how the article falsely labeled Jonathan Kay and Popular
Mechanics “experts,” while neglecting to quote a single one of the 2,100
engineering and architecture experts who are so critical of the
official account that they are demanding a new World Trade Center
investigation. In addition, the article provides links to every source
it references that supports the official account of 9/11, but not a
single link to a source critiquing the official account.
With
regard to the poll commissioned by ReThink911 and conducted by the
polling firm YouGov, the article falsely, groundlessly calls it
“unscientific,” and then conveniently neglects to embed or link to the
30-second video shown to the poll respondents. It seems rather obvious
the video would be of interest to your readers.
The
article disrespectfully caricatures 9/11 activists by likening the
group in Hamilton, Ontario to terrorists belonging to a “cell,” and the
article does not mention even once the name of the ad campaign – or its
website ReThink911.org.
If
your goal was to mislead the public about the very serious pursuit of
truth regarding the events of 9/11, congratulations, I would say you
succeeded admirably – except I think most people can see through this
atrocious, unabashedly one-sided “reporting.”
If
you care at all about preserving the BBC’s journalistic integrity, I
would suggest you make up for this horrible disservice to the public
with an article that gives equal and unbiased attention to the more than
2,100 architects and engineers calling for a new investigation into the
destruction of Building 7.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
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NY Times Billboard to Continue through December
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