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Jim Fetzer of Scholars for 9/11 Truth not on the level?

 
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The following message from Professor Stephen E. Jones, was kindly forwarded to our mailbox by David Hawkins.

From: Jones, Steven
To: Membership Administrator
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:54 AM
Subject: "Has Prof. Jones withdrawn from the Scholars from 9/11 Truth group?" I have.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

This is to inform you that I (along with chemist Kevin Ryan and many others) have withdrawn from association with Jim Fetzer (JF) and “his” version of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, and to provide reasons for this action.

1. On the Scholars web site he manages (www.st911.org), JF casts aspersions on my research regarding the use of thermates at the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001 -- which is fine as long as he provides serious technical objections, which he has not done. At the same time, JF is promoting on the web site notions that energy-beams from WTC 7 or from space knocked the Towers down. I have invited JF repeatedly to view the video of my talk given 11/11/06 at the University of California at Berkeley which provides the latest physical evidences for thermate use, reinforcing the data in my published paper. He admitted this week that he has not done so. My UC-Berkeley talk is here.

In fairness, I also list Jim’s talk in Tucson (Nov. 13) [This video has been removed by the user -- according to a notice at the YouTube Web site], which you may wish to compare.

Here you will find Jim’s assertion that energy beams directed from WTC 7, or from space, may be the “fascinating” explanation for what caused the Twin Towers to collapse. He also here discusses “falling grand pianos.” My sincere efforts to correct his evident errors/misinformation have been twisted and distorted until I want no more to do with such “tar-baby” discussions.

2. I support this statement made recently by Dr. Frank Legge, Kevin Ryan, Victoria Ashley, and other (previous) members of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth:

“Further, on the Scholars’ web site, positions are being promoted which are disputed by the scientists specializing in physical sciences from Scholars For 9/11 Truth. Attempts to correct this situation have failed. As of this date the web site continues to promote assertions which [are] unsupported by the evidence (ray-beams from space caused the demolitions, mini-nukes were used in the WTC towers, real commercial jets did not hit the WTC towers, etc.). We feel that the promotion of these ideas functions to distract from and discredit much of the other basic strong material challenging the official story of 9/11 which already exists - the stand down, the war games, the insider trading, the many strong points of evidence on the demolitions, etc.”

3. On the Scholars’ web site, JF has posted an Open Letter About Steven Jones” which contains the following: "He is now planning to take control of the web site from me. ...his attempt to take over the site is morally, legally, and intellectually objectionable on many grounds, including that it qualifies as taking something that does not belong to him."

Jim’s accusation against me is simply untrue and he provided no evidence for his assertion. I replied: “What nonsense. As I have written to you privately, Jim, I have no interest at all "to take over the site." My work is research… Your accusation that I attempt "to take over the site" is not only unfounded, it is bizarre.”

The uncivil accusations and diatribes remain on the Scholars’ web site (actually managed solely by JF) to this day, contrary to the strong objections of many members of the society. You may read my full reply and pleading with JF to be reasonable, here. I have asked JF to promptly remove any papers which I authored from this web site, but he has not done so.

JF may keep his web site and, whoever wishes to, [may] adhere to “his” version of Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Many of us thought this was going to be a collective effort where members could have a voice, not JF’s “sole proprietorship.”

It is most unfortunate that others have been dragged into this situation, and I write out of concern for you to explain what has been going on. Of late, JF refers often to his association now with Judy Wood and Morgan Reynolds. These two are noted for their no-planes-hit-the-Towers theories and for promoting the notion of ray-beams from space knocking down the Towers. (I and others have written evidence-based rebuttals to these notions.) These two have written caustic ad hominems about me in particular, and it possible that Jim’s association with them explains some of his recent behavior.

I hope Jim will view the video of my lecture at UC-Berkeley and then re-evaluate his stance.

4. During Thanksgiving weekend, JF unilaterally dismissed me as co-chair of Scholars for 9/11 Truth. I felt that this action was improper and unfair. Later he hinted that unspecified legal action might be taken against me and/or Alex Floum, a fine researcher. To me, this was the last straw which led to my ending association with JF and “his” society.

5. I join Kevin Ryan and many others in withdrawing from the group so that my name will not be attached to the personalized attacks and ray-beams-from-space stuff on www.st911.org.

6. Some months ago, I initiated and now co-edit with Kevin Ryan the Journal of 9/11 Studies which publishes peer-reviewed papers which adhere to the scientific method. I hope you will take a look at some of the fine papers therein. I believe this is the proper way to proceed, with careful studies followed by peer-reviewed publication.

7. An ad hoc committee of scholars (from the old group) is forming a research society which will focus on use of the scientific method and peer-reviewed papers. Their website will be closely allied with the Journal of 9/11 Studies (which I co-edit) and will be managed by an elected committee, responsive to the group. Two sample websites are already available to give further information: [link to schol.digitalstyledesigns.com] and [link to www.taulbee.us] This research group intends to keep in touch with its members and to use the scientific method along with civil and respectful discourse. (We won’t spend much time on ray-beams from space knocking down the Towers!). If you wish to join this group, you may write to: stj911.info[at]yahoo.com.

Steven E. Jones
Physicist

[link to www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com]
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12/18/2006 11:38 PM
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WOO-FIGHT!! 1rof1
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Reality is interesting enough.
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12/18/2006 11:45 PM
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K00k fight!!!!
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12/19/2006 12:33 AM
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Yes, it appears that Jim Fetzer is not on the level.

"I'm taking my website & you can't play!" - JF
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12/19/2006 12:49 AM
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K00k fight!!!!
 Quoting: The Commentator



actually the kook fight might be between fitzers energy beams and the government's official story, with those two being kooky and jones being correct.
- Lord Sir Walter U. Hazeltree, D.D.S. (Dental Surgeon) (LoL)
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12/19/2006 12:57 AM
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I was a member of Scholars, but have now provided work for the new organization to get started. It has been an ugly battle, with Fetzer putting the battle into the open, while we have tried to keep it limited to our private forum.
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12/19/2006 01:01 AM
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actually the kook fight might be between fitzers energy beams and the government's official story, with those two being kooky and jones being correct.
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I've long suspected Fetzer to be a disinformation agent. He's added bizarre explanations to various events in the past, with 9-11 being the latest. The press fixates on Fetzer's explanations which allows the media to dismiss all other non-government explanations for the events.
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12/19/2006 02:19 AM
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As soon as I read the "open letter" to Dr. Jones, I wrote him.
Pleading he doesn't let people blur the credibility of the movement through theories that might well have said Aliens Did It rolleyes
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12/19/2006 02:25 AM
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I concur. I would have to believe that Jim Fetzer is either a dis-info agent, or is just totally of his rocker.
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12/19/2006 04:16 AM
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Fetzer is completely sincere, I don't doubt that.

Causing organizations to implode is standard technique for FBI COINTELPRO - style operations, and they appear to have had some success here.

Also new "mind control" technology makes it possible to induce paranoia and distrust, and I suspect that is what has been done to Fetzer. He was made to be distrustful of Jones. I think Reynolds and Woods, who Fetzer has sided with, are the ones not on the level. Even IF they're right about beamed energy being used, it's NOT good strategy to stress that in alternative theories of how the buildings collapsed, it's too space-alienish. Also, even in that case, it can also be true that thermate was used as well. So why not FOCUS on the thermate, it's something people can understand easier, and doesn't scare them off -- and doesn't, unfortunately, tend to make the author of a theory paper look like a "woo woo".

So I suspect Fetzer is being attacked with mind control techknology. That is it's main use, a secret weapon for political control. I'm not sure what he can do to protect himself from such attacks, except to wear aluminum foil shielding over his head (which has obvious negative effects on one's credibility).
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Fetzer is completely sincere, I don't doubt that.

Causing organizations to implode is standard technique for FBI COINTELPRO - style operations, and they appear to have had some success here.

Also new "mind control" technology makes it possible to induce paranoia and distrust, and I suspect that is what has been done to Fetzer. He was made to be distrustful of Jones. I think Reynolds and Woods, who Fetzer has sided with, are the ones not on the level. Even IF they're right about beamed energy being used, it's NOT good strategy to stress that in alternative theories of how the buildings collapsed, it's too space-alienish. Also, even in that case, it can also be true that thermate was used as well. So why not FOCUS on the thermate, it's something people can understand easier, and doesn't scare them off -- and doesn't, unfortunately, tend to make the author of a theory paper look like a "woo woo".

So I suspect Fetzer is being attacked with mind control techknology. That is it's main use, a secret weapon for political control. I'm not sure what he can do to protect himself from such attacks, except to wear aluminum foil shielding over his head (which has obvious negative effects on one's credibility).
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 116561


Nonsense! By focussing on the thermite evidence, don't you realise that 9/11 truth seekers would be setting themselves up for being debunked, as believers in the official story have only got to suggest that thermite was used in the cutting up of girders at Ground Zero (and there is some photographic evidence of this) and Jones' scenario is blown sky high together with the credibility of the 9/11 truth movement. Fetzer realises this danger. He was not made distrustful of Jones' work! Its scientific inadequacy is plain to anyone like myself with three degrees in physics. Wood's analysis has utterly discredited Jones' work and revealed his errors. Moreover, Fetzer knows that use of thermite/thermate could have been only a small cause of the total pulverisation of the two towers, for it would still have left large chunks of concrete and plenty of girders in the debris, whereas there was very little of either. That's why he has withdrawn his support from Jones and sided with Wood. Jones is now expressing sour grapes because he is no longer the centre of the limelight in which he likes to be. It is unscientific of him to ignore all possibilities simply because to HIS narrow imagination, they seem to be far-fetched. Perhaps that's what the 9/11 plotters want everyone to believe so that the real truth cannot emerge. The reality now is that Jones' work is a sideshow, not the main event, for thermite/thermate could not have caused all the anomalous damage revealed by Wood's photos and the total dustification of most of the steel and concrete in the two towers. Wood's research has left Jones far behind, unable to explain all the new evidence that she has revealed and unable to account for why the towers were not subject to a controlled demolition in the strict sense but were mostly vaporized. Yes, thermite may be more believable a priori than directed energy weapons. But only in a psychological sense, not in terms of the available evidence. But it is the actual scientific truth that matters, however hard it is to believe, not half-baked views of it that can be easily dismissed by believers in the official story, as Jones' theory can be.

If anyone is the disrupting influence that is splitting opinion amongst 9/11 truth seekers, it is Professor Jones, who cannot swallow his pride by admitting that his theory of controlled demolition is only a small part of the truth, not the whole truth. So he resorts to dismissive hyperbole ("space beams")in a vain attempt to make Wood's theory look silly. Of course, her theory sounds like science fiction. But only to those of you who are totally in the dark about what weapons the US military may have secretly developed. It could well be that the plotters of 9/11 are banking that we don't believe such advanced weapons were used, so that their supporters can shoot down anyone like Jones who comes up with the stupid theory that thermite/thermate alone was sufficient to cause the degree of destruction of the two towers. Fetzer knows that his organisation is setting itself to be shot down if he supports Jones' theory. That's why he has withdrawn his support for it. Jones may pretend to be alarmed by the switch of sides, but he has only himself to blame in advocating such an inadequate theory.

Finally, ask yourselves this: given Jones's disreputable collaboration with physicists from Harvard and CalTech to rubbish the research field of cold fusion before the subject even got off the ground - something for which many physicists will never forgive him - can you really trust him? Frankly, I don't. I think there is a real possibility that he is a plant in the 9/11 truth movement, intended to split its followers by leading them up the wrong path with a blatantly false explanation of how the two towers were demolished. He certainly did not seem to put out very much when he was asked to resign from his post at BYU. For most scientists, such an end of a career would have been shattering. The notion that Fetzer is the disrupting plant is laughable. Anyone who believes that is merely displaying their total ignorance of the man and his past research. Some of you need to get real and ask yourselves who here is playing whom for the sucker.





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