They can't handle the truth

Frank Greening, a retired chemist, developed a computer model of the World Trade Center collapses, to show how the "official story" wasn't scientifically plausible. When his model confirmed the official story, the blackshirts were none to happy about it:

In Hamilton, Frank Greening, a retired Ontario Hydro physical chemistry scientist, followed the conspiracy debate and developed a computer code to recreate the rate of collapse of the towers.

He expected his study would lend credence to the conspiracy theorists, but to his surprise, it showed that trauma at upper levels could indeed bring down the buildings in the manner and rate that occurred.

"I too wondered how these buildings could collapse in such an amazing fashion," says Greening in a telephone interview. "How could a building come down from the top-down like that?"

He tried to separate political motives from the science and is now convinced the conspiracy theorists who speak in scientific terms "are dragging science through the mud" while gaining unjustified credibility with the general public.

"A lot of what they are saying is science fiction. But if you package it in a certain way, it can be quite convincing."

Greening is trying to arrange a face-to-face debate with conspiracy scholars because he has become frustrated trying to deal with them by email.

"They just started to ignore me if they were hearing things they didn't want to hear," he complains.

After he posted his rebuttal on The Journal of 9/11 Studies website, he was accused of being a Bush toady.

"Frankly," he says, "some of the reaction freaked me out." [emphasis added]

Hey, they're only asking questions. They never said they wanted these questions answered. (Hat tip: Mike H.)

Damian P.

Posted by damian at September 14, 2006 03:42 PM