I find this utterly extraordinary. A group of otherwise highly credentialed and sophisticated architects & engineers has produced this slickly-packaged website
http://www.ae911truth.org/
claiming there was a conspiracy underlying the 9/11 collapse of the Twin Towers and the adjacent skyscraper.
Globe columnist Alex Beam wrote this column about them a few days back:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/11/16/the-truthers-and/Y3RrUaEHaOakG60crFM9bK/story.html
Which prompted Mr. Gage to write this rebuttal letter in response:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2015/12/04/evidence-still-raises-questions-over-world-trade-center-collapses/5xWSDfumsdDhw9XFThirKJ/story.html
As a phenomenon of collective self-delusion/irrational thought processes, I find this utterly extraordinary, in that a group of such supremely educated and otherwise presumably highly rational individuals would succumb to self-fulfilling prophecy or whatever the proper clinical description should be for this mental derangement.
Anyway, even if this thread causes a few crazy truthers to come out of the woodwork, it still seems reasonable to initiate in that, at a higher level, it seems like there should always be sensible ongoing free inquiry and discourse among architects and engineers about the physical forces and dynamics surrounding the collapse of the three towers.
That said, if this thread immediately gets derailed by crazy ranting 9/11 truthers, then I strongly encourage ArchBoston administrators to eliminate it.
http://www.ae911truth.org/
claiming there was a conspiracy underlying the 9/11 collapse of the Twin Towers and the adjacent skyscraper.
Globe columnist Alex Beam wrote this column about them a few days back:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/11/16/the-truthers-and/Y3RrUaEHaOakG60crFM9bK/story.html
Which prompted Mr. Gage to write this rebuttal letter in response:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2015/12/04/evidence-still-raises-questions-over-world-trade-center-collapses/5xWSDfumsdDhw9XFThirKJ/story.html
As a phenomenon of collective self-delusion/irrational thought processes, I find this utterly extraordinary, in that a group of such supremely educated and otherwise presumably highly rational individuals would succumb to self-fulfilling prophecy or whatever the proper clinical description should be for this mental derangement.
Anyway, even if this thread causes a few crazy truthers to come out of the woodwork, it still seems reasonable to initiate in that, at a higher level, it seems like there should always be sensible ongoing free inquiry and discourse among architects and engineers about the physical forces and dynamics surrounding the collapse of the three towers.
That said, if this thread immediately gets derailed by crazy ranting 9/11 truthers, then I strongly encourage ArchBoston administrators to eliminate it.