Posted on 10/21/2006 4:03:19 PM PDT by Logophile
PROVO, Utah -- A Brigham Young University physics professor who suggested the World Trade Center was brought down by explosives has resigned, six weeks after the school placed him on leave.
"I am electing to retire so that I can spend more time speaking and conducting research of my choosing," physics professor Steven Jones said in a statement released by the school.
His retirement is effective Jan. 1, 2007.
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Scholar? Sure....
Researching the effect of LSD on the brain?
Researching to see how many times he can get on CSPIN to spew his madness?
"I'm sifting through hundreds of job offers extended by "enlightened" universities who are eager to have me join their faculty so I can continue to spread my moonbat conspiracy crap. While I take my time choosing which one to take, I'll be making a comfortable living making the rounds of the MSM outlets as a 9/11 "expert" and speaking at ANSWER rallies."
Hmmm......I wonder....is he related to the other "wack job", Alex Jones?
Once upon a time, Steve Jones was a highly regarded physicist. Someone seems to have slipped something into his tea that atrophied his judgement.
Can someone explain how it is that these idiots believe that explosives suffient to bring down even one floor of the WTC managed to survive the heat and fire from the jet fuel for 1 hour without burning (like c4) or exploding instantly when the jets hit? It takes a considerable act of faith to believe what they do.
Always good when these primitives get caught and sent packing.
I saw the collaspses in realtime on TV. As the first building was falling, it only took as second or so before I realized that what looked -- at first impression -- like an explosion was merely air compressed and forced out by the "pancake collapse piston" effect of the falling upper floors.
He'll be on Larry King, 60 Minutes and the Daily show in less than a week.
Sadly tho, I believe Ward Churchill is still getting paid by Colorado University.
Isn't this the guy did work supposedly validating the cold fusion work?
Yes, it is.
As I remember it was a numerical artifact that he was attributing as evidence for cold fusion.
I'm afraid I quit paying serious attention to cold fusion before that point, so I don't recall what conclusion he came to (if any). To a layman like me, his work seemed more serious and credible than Pons and Fleischmann.
Once upon a time, Steve Jones was a highly regarded physicist. Someone seems to have slipped something into his tea that atrophied his judgement.
Well, being a BYU professor, I doubt he drinks tea. So it must have been someone slipping palladium into his caffeine free Coca-Cola.
I dunno. Just because he's at BYU doesn't necessitate that he is Mormon.
I'm no expert on the 9-11 Nutters in particular, but it would be absolutely typical of their type if they simply avoided engaging such salient and crucial questions entirely, via distracting arm-waving and subject changing.
That seems to be the pattern as far as I can tell. (That is without having undertaken the tedious and painful task of surveying their literature and rants in detail.) I've certainly never heard one of these freaks attempt to explain this, or even say whether they think the explosives were placed before or after the plane (or "missile") strikes.
"That is without having undertaken the tedious and painful task of surveying their literature and rants in detail."
I once made the mistake of trying to pin one such nut job down.
He claimed that the CIA / FBI / Haliburton / Trilateral Commission / Cheney was planting people into their movement with really crazy ideas, in order to discredit their movement. So, the people who claimed that the "missiles" were disguised as airplanes using holograms are really government planted nut cases.
I think South Park had the correct take on such people -- 1/4 of the population are retards (their term). Remember, 15% of the US population believed that Elvis was alive for 20 years after he died.
That's easy. There were no jets or fires. It was all done in a government studio, right next to where they faked the moon landing.
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