Thursday, February 9, 2012

How Professor Steven Jones Became a Conspiracy Theorist

For most of his career, Steven Jones, a Brigham Young University physics professor, was known mainly for his work on muon-catalyzed fusion. He conducted his Ph.D. research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (from 1974 to 1977), and post-doctoral research at Cornell University and the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility.

In the fall of 2006, amid controversy surrounding his work on the collapse of the World Trade Center, he was relieved of his teaching duties and placed on paid leave from BYU. He retired on October 20, 2006 with the status of Professor Emeritus.

In the clip below, he talks about how he became a conspiracy theorist and what happened to his career.

9 comments:

  1. I don't have the technical expertise to gain much from the papers he wrote on the red/gray chips but I do know that his results have been independently verified multiple times.

    I highly recommend David Ray Griffin's The Mysterious Collapse of Building 7



    Thanks for having the courage to post this stuff Mr. Wenzel.

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  2. He is either "brave," "foolish" or "crazy,"

    He doesn't sound "crazy."

    As an academic, he would unlikely be more "foolish" than most.''

    It's been so long since I've met a "brave" person that I feel I am unqualified to make that judgement.

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  3. I have the utmost respect for Prof. Jones and his research on 9/11. Thank you for posting.

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  4. Some Conspiracy Theories make a ton of sense, but if I hear one more person tell me how high the melting point of steel is and how internal fires in the building couldn't reach it, I am going to hurl.

    Presumably, steel loses some of it's stiffness before it turns to liquid. And presumably, that's a big deal when you're supporting the weight of one of the world's tallest buildings. I mean, come on.

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    1. It has less to do with the steel being weakened than the confirmed existence of pools of molten steel found during the recovery operation. As such, the comment makes complete sense.

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  5. @Matt,

    Speaking of hurl-worthy, consider this video of NIST lead engineer John Gross denying clear evidence that the fires of 911 were anything but conventinoal.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SLIzSCt_cg

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  6. I'm also tired of the talk about steel melting. When steel frame buildings collapse from fire they always leave huge polls of molten steel at the base.

    Steel frame buildings don't collapse from fire you say? Then I counter by saying there was no molten steel!

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  7. Here is the Norman Mineta testimony Professor Jones references. While listening to this testimony, know that Mineta's testimony is under oath. Cheney, who said he was unaware of any plane coming towards the Pentagon, only would testify behind closed doors, not under oath and would not be recorded in any way.

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    1. Might also want to mention that Mineta's testimony -- like much important information -- was excluded from the 9/11 Commission (Omission) Report.

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