Part 1: Introduction
Popular Mechanics has been the primary cheerleader in the mainstream media defending the NIST reports ever since its book, Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up To the Facts, was published in 2006.
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Debunking the Real 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can’t Face Up to Reality
Editor’s note: This 10-part series by researcher Adam Taylor exposes the erroneous and deceptive arguments made by Popular Mechanics in its most recent edition of Debunking 9/11 Myths, published around the ten-year anniversary of September 11, 2001. As Taylor writes, “Popular Mechanics has been the…
Temporal considerations in collapse of WTC Towers
Abstract: The circumstances leading to the collapse of the WTC Towers were described in numerous publications before but quantification of possible mechanisms published so far remains very limited. The basic observation is that columns of a 110-story building were weakened, over a relatively short segment…
Collapse Time Analysis of Multi-Story Structural Steel Buildings
Abstract: Until recently, the progression and time of collapse of structures has not been a primary objective of the structural engineering profession. However, such events are likely to be of major interest in high rise building situations where a fire-initiated failure takes place, or where…
Lack of Deceleration of North Tower’s Upper Section Proves Use of Explosives
Many people who think they have been keeping up with the revelations of the last several years about the destruction of the three high-rises in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, will nonetheless be surprised to discover that the falling upper section of WTC…
Advanced Pyrotechnic or Explosive Material Discovered in WTC Dust
Starting in 2007, a group of independent researchers began examining the dust from the World Trade Center disaster to see if identifiable residues might help explain the highly energetic destruction that was observed in the videos. Naked-eye and microscopic examination revealed numerous tiny metallic and…
Evidence Destroyed is Justice Denied
The destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11 caused the greatest loss of life and property damage in U.S. fire history and constituted the largest structural failures in world history. This event should have received the most thorough investigation of any event…
The NIST Analyses: A Close Look at WTC 7
The following comments and questions describe why I consider the Final Reports NCSTAR 1A, 1-9 and 1-9A to be incomplete, inconsistent and erroneous. Sincere thanks are due to Chris Sarns, Gregg Roberts, David Chandler and Dwain Deets for their helpful comments. I hope many others…
Falsifiability and the NIST WTC Report: A Study in Theoretical Adequacy
“It is our contention that the conclusions proffered by the NIST report, if analyzed against data from within the report itself, demonstrate critical inconsistencies. The most obvious of these relates to the temperature at which the structural steel is likely to fail. The NIST report…
Destruction of the World Trade Center North Tower and Fundamental Physics
Abstract: The roof line of the North Tower of the World Trade Center is shown to have been in constant downward acceleration until it disappeared. A downward acceleration of the falling upper block implies a downward net force, which requires that the upward resistive force was…