More Bad Science Surrounding the “Nano-Thermite” Red Herring (archive)

(As Truther influencers start pushing the thermite distraction again (which even Professor Jones discredited) it's important to remember how it was used in the past to distract from very real convincing evidence from the RJ Lee Group ('it was a combustion event not a compression event'))

(archived from August 23, 2009)

by Scott Creighton

Another AE911Truth member has come out with what he claims is video evidence of the presence of  “nanothermite” in the demolition process of the World Trade Centers.  It is surprising that AE911Truth (an organization made up primarily of engineers and scientists)  would be promoting this video by David Chandler because it is an embarrassing collection of unsupported conclusions and really bad science.  It so obvious, anyone can pick it apart.  Unfortunately, I think that might be it’s purpose.

This “nanothermite” track that the Truth Movement has been on since the publication of the Harrit/Jones/Roberts paper has been increasingly dishonest since the very beginning and this is just another example of how “nanothermite” is blowing up our movement.

Which is, of course, the only thing this “super secret” pyrotechnic COULD blow up…

What they proposed in their paper was that they had found “active thermetic material” that utilized “nano technology” in the dust from the WTC demolitions.  In later discussions, they (Jones and Harrit at least) have estimated the presence of at least 10 tons of this unexploded material exists in the dust that was scattered around New York on Sept. 11th, 2001.

There has been a great deal of reasoned evaluation of the paper itself and the results of those evaluations have not been positive.

So Now Professor Jones Agrees with Me? (archive)

(With Ron Johnson saying in congress we need a new investigation into 9/11...all of a sudden these 'truthers' have popped up pushing 'nanothermite' as the means by which the controlled demolition took place. It's disinformation. Even Professor Jones of BYU, the guy who came up with the thermite/nanothermite/superthermite theory has admitted... thermite could NOT have demoed the buildings. It was conventional high explosives used in the controlled demolition industry. He admitted as much in 2009. and yet... here we are... seeing all these thought leaders in the Truth Movement push this same old debunked tired disinformation line... all over again.)

 

(archived from September 1, 2009)

by Scott Creighton

For months I have been taking hits from my colleagues in the Truth movement for my stand on the Jones, Harrit, Roberts paper “Active Thermetic Material…“.

I have stated, for the record and in no uncertain terms, that their “nano-thermetic material” could not have been w

hat pulverized the floor systems and was probably not what was used as cutter charges.

 

I have theorized a rational, logic based hypothesis for exactly what kind of explosive was used as the primary high-explosive in the demolition of the Trade Centers, and have even produced detailed drawings and schematics to illustrate my point.

Now guess who agrees with me?  Prof. Steven Jones does. Well, at least partly.