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When you dig, and see how conspiracists depend on false narratives,
have no physical evidence, and pseudoscience science, it's easy to question conspiracists. Especially the professional conspiracists vs the skeptics who's only reward is truth? The scientific skeptics that debunk in their spare time.
Nope, I think flat earthers are the quintessential conspiracists.
I really don't even think it's about what is real, or even what conspiracists believe themselves. It's about what you can get everyone to believe.
Are there honest conspiracists, you bet. Dishonest skeptics, got those too.
However, insurance agents that concluded fire collapse wanted to find a way to minimize the payout. Engineers concluding fire collapse want to build better buildings if anything to limit their liability. Local investigators dealing with lose of friends and colleagues, and the remains of victims, wanted the real story and justice.
originally posted by: Informer1958
You mean NIST Report that was used to explain what happened to the WTC, I believe that was the only report with some science in it, I have no doubt that the insurance companies would rely on it, anything else and that being the government paid NIST to do the Report, why would they look anywhere else?
The Aegis Court case was based on science by persons to construct accurate modelling based on their investigation. The name of just one of the documents with modeling data is the WTC 7 collapse. Aegis - Nordenson Expert Report 1.pdf. found here with other information and reports based on science. www.metabunk.org...
Who is equipped to demonstrate an understanding of progressive collapse of a high rise steel building? The unprecedented nature of the collapse requires an analysis that would turn conventional fire engineering thinking on its head. I don't see any such thing here.
If Torero in particular could have demonstrated this in a FEA, I am sure he would have done so long before the AEGIS court case. And if Torero cannot, then neither can NIST.
I don't think there is any side stepping going on as such by any of these experts. They were posed a question that assumed NISTs initiating event would lead to a progressive collapse, and they produced analysis and opinion that reflected this assumption.
Many fire science innovations begin life at Edinburgh University, "fire grid" being a prime example of this. If anybody was going to come up with a plausible analysis that showed a single initiating event leading to progressive global collapse, they would have done it.
You are the reasons conspiracists cannot be trusted.
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: Informer1958
Nope, I think flat earthers are the quintessential conspiracists. I really don't even think it's about what is real, or even what conspiracists believe themselves. It's about what you can get everyone to believe. Are there honest conspiracists, you bet. Dishonest skeptics, got those too. However, insurance agents that concluded fire collapse wanted to find a way to minimize the payout. Engineers concluding fire collapse want to build better buildings if anything to limit their liability. Local investigators dealing with lose of friends and colleagues, and the remains of victims, wanted the real story and justice.
When you dig, and see how conspiracists depend on false narratives, have no physical evidence, and pseudoscience science, it's easy to question conspiracists. Especially the professional conspiracists vs the skeptics who's only reward is truth? The scientific skeptics that debunk in their spare time.
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: Informer1958
Nope, I think flat earthers are the quintessential conspiracists. I really don't even think it's about what is real, or even what conspiracists believe themselves. It's about what you can get everyone to believe. Are there honest conspiracists, you bet. Dishonest skeptics, got those too. However, insurance agents that concluded fire collapse wanted to find a way to minimize the payout. Engineers concluding fire collapse want to build better buildings if anything to limit their liability. Local investigators dealing with lose of friends and colleagues, and the remains of victims, wanted the real story and justice.
When you dig, and see how conspiracists depend on false narratives, have no physical evidence, and pseudoscience science, it's easy to question conspiracists. Especially the professional conspiracists vs the skeptics who's only reward is truth? The scientific skeptics that debunk in their spare time.
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: KillerKell
As past performance indicates, "truthers" and government need fact checked. Cannot trust anyone with an agenda.......
I hate when my network is slow and tricks me into the old double post.
Has this 2014 video been debunked? It is visually compelling, whatever that is worth ultimately