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Steven Jones 911 Truth Falters As He Waffles Backtacks and Avoids On Peer Review

Posted by: ricksiegel on Thursday, November 23, 2006 - 09:11 PM 2472 Reads

I was astounded to see this happen. Does the government need to push disinfo when the apparent "stars" of this 911 Truth movement do more damage to their own credibility than any agent?

Here the stalwart of the 911 Truth movement is asked a very simple question "Have you had a peer reviewed paper published?". The answers just were not coming out. In particular no mention of the peer paper, where it was, whom it has gone to or any single fact about the paper. Only a reference to some part of some "thing" going in a David Ray Griffin book came to light. A scientific paper is not considered valid or published until it is peer reviewed, that is what professor Jones is all about. Real Science. But the honesty and openness of the baron of the 911 truth movement was distorted and bumbling here.

There is some understanding to be had here that the man asking the question may well be a government shill or at least doing the work of an agent in bringing a question that was obviously painful for professor Jones to answer. Yet in his brief history in the 911 Truth organizations he has made it a point to talk about "his paper" and this "peer review" that has to be, or will be, or is to be.

All the time to an objective observer this looks like more subterfuge. Not only has the professor avoided the question and not made a forthright answer but also the song and dance provided showed a slickster taking a slide rather than donning the mantle of truth.

While 911 and the events around it are something I am a very large part of this kind of antic is something getting all too prevalent.

I guess I would like to see this paper and know if it has been submitted to any peer review. After more than a year of active participation in the 911 Truth movement professor Jones has been talking about the paper and the peer review. Perhaps he should make it real?

I already know that professor Jones has been spending time to make his own peer review board and has been asking myself, other historians, and researchers to submit our papers to his "peer review board". A board he created among his friends to offer only “certain” papers. Such a self-appointed peer review of scientific papers is tainted, as much as the governments. His attempt brought him the associated disparagement and break-up of the original “Scholars for 911 Truth” and is the cause of the current jihad with Judy Woods and Jim Fetzer vs. Jones.

But Jones and Fetzer continue to do the job of distraction paid or not. It matters not just how the buildings were destroyed, they both believe the government lied as do I. Without the evidence there is no theory to be proved on the 911 events. They become wild speculations as all forensics were destroyed under the watchful eye of a trained District Attorney named Rudolph Giuliani or held censored by the government and powers who benefited from it. Focus on bringing actions on the criminals and worry about the proof when you have power of subpoena.

For my readers you will probably already know that the myriad facets of the frauds surrounding 911 events are moot compared to the inundations of freedom and liberty that have been accomplished in that name.

The very evidence that is needed to prove one point or another is held by the government, censored by it, or destroyed by Giuliani and company in the days after the event. The perpetrators are busy enriching themselves and family, running the nation into the ground and making murderous invasions of other nations to rape them of their wealth, dignity and freedoms.

Rick Siegel Perspectives on Freedom and Liberty