2006-09-11 The 9-11 Truth Movement in Perspective

2006-09-11 Phil Mol&eacute; eSkeptic \9-11 Truth movement\9-11/anomalies/denial\debunking http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/06-09-11 9/11 Conspiracy Theories: The 9/11 Truth Movement in Perspective The 9-11 Truth Movement in Perspective  What can we make of these allegations? First, let’s examine the similarity in appearance between the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and the collapse of buildings destroyed through planned demolitions. In controlled demolitions, detonating devices weaken or disrupt all major support points in a building at the same time. Therefore, once the collapse begins, all parts of the building are simultaneously in motion, free-falling to the ground. However, this is definitely not what happens during the collapse of WTC Buildings 1 and 2. Carefully review footage of the collapses, and you will find that the parts of the buildings above the plane impact points begin falling first, while the lower parts of the buildings are initially stationary.3 The parts of the towers below the impact point do not begin to fall until the higher floors have collapsed onto them. This is not what we would expect if the towers collapsed from a controlled demolition, but it is exactly what we would expect if the building collapse resulted from damage sustained by the impact of the planes and subsequent fire damage. A conspiracy theorist may counter that the buildings were rigged to begin falling from the top down, but what are the chances that those planning such a complicated demolition would be able to predict the exact location the planes would impact the towers, and prepare the towers to begin falling precisely there? This appears to be a systematic "debunking" of some of the major anomalies -- but the debunking itself is easily countered, and introduces a number of fallacies. (However, I haven't read the whole article yet. -)

a systematic but flawed debunking of many of the main 9/11 anomalies   