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If you are refering to the folks over at AEtruth or whatever it is called, I think if you look closely you'll find only about 300 of them are actually marginaly qualified engineers or architects and thats out of millions worldwide, so yeah thats about right for a quack ratio.
So, to better qualify the statement, only a small portion of the actual quacks question 9/11.
Sorry, read it. Not in there. No mention of collecting paint samples from the debris at the World Trade Center.
Just a reference to "paint samples"
No control group = no science.
What qualifies you to call Jones a quack?
Or anyone a quack for that matter?
If you're so resolute in your convictions then provide a published paper which refutes Jones's thermite theory.
BTW...Jones is published.
Originally posted by impressme
reply to post by hooper
He did get paint samples from the trade center debris. The paints signature was way off from known nano thermite. Jone's chips are an exact match.
Your comment is untrue,
5. Flame/Ignition Tests
The DSC used in our studies does not allow for visual inspection
of the energetic reaction. Therefore tests were also
performed with a small oxyacetylene flame applied to red/gray
chips. Samples were either heated on a graphite block (Fig. 22
or held with tweezers in the flame. Several paint samples were
also tested and in each case, the paint sample was immediately
reduced to fragile ashes by the hot flame. This was not the
case, however, with any of the red/gray chips from the World
Trade Center dust.
The first WTC red/gray chip so tested was approximately
1mm 1mm. After a few seconds of heating, the high-speed
ejection of a hot particle was observed under the hand of the
person holding the torch (Fig. 22). The intense light and
bright orange color of the particle attest to its high temperature.
In this case, the attempt to recover the diminutive endproduct
of the reaction was unsuccessful. A short video clip
of the test (including slow-motion) is available here:
journalof911studies.com...
ow.mov
In a later flame-ignition test, the end product was recovered
and is shown in the photomicrograph and SEM image in
Fig. (23). Once again, the formation of iron-rich semispherical
shapes shows that the residue had been melted,
enabling surface tension of the liquid to pull it into spherical
shapes. However, the evidence obtained in the DSC analyses
is more compelling that a thermitic reaction actually occurs
as in that case ignition is observed when the red material is
heated to no more than 430 °C.
DISCUSSION
All of the dust samples that were inspected were found to
Contain
www.bentham-open.org.../2009/00000002/00000001/7TOCPJ.SGM
Here is the flame test results in Jones paper you do not know what you are talking about and are making assumptions based on your opinions
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by Come Clean
What qualifies you to call Jones a quack?
I can read.
Or anyone a quack for that matter?
Same thing that can qualify anyone else, gray matter. Really, if you go to six doctors and they all tell you need the same operation and then the seventh tells to go light a candle on tree stump by a crossroads at midnight while standing on your head then you say, quack. MD or no MD, don't care how long he or she has been practising medicine, that's a quack. How they got that way or why they got that way is irrelevant.
Personally, I think calling Jones, et al quacks is doing a disservice to actual quacks. Most "quacks" are probably simply suffering from some sort of psychological or physiological problem. I think Jones et all are actual con men - my opinion. I don't think they believe for one minute all the stuff they are spewing, I think they found a niche and are or were trying to exploit it but probably overestimated the market, now they are stuck being on record with this stuff and have nowhere else to go.
If you're so resolute in your convictions then provide a published paper which refutes Jones's thermite theory.
Publish a paper to disprove a fairytale?
BTW...Jones is published.
So are a lot of people. I reserve the right to make my own judgement, and now you have it.
Originally posted by impressme
reply to post by pteridine
Here are a few of the many failings of the paper: DSC done in air and not valid to prove thermitic reaction. Energy output inconsistent and shows simple combustion. "
“Not valid,” Please show with scientific proof not your opinions.
Control group, control group.
Not the dust samples from the windowsills that people sent him, but the a control group. Something other than the floor sweepings. He refers to "paint samples" that he also tested.
That's all he says, "paint samples". What kind of paint, where he got it, how he treated it, was it fully cured? Was it at one time painted on something? If so, what? How old were the samples? etc. etc. etc.
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by impressme
Why doesn't the good professor go collect some paint chips from some metal structures from in and around Manhattan and put them to the same "rigorous" lab tests?
No control group - no science.
The earliest-collected sample came from Mr. Frank Delessio
who, according to his videotaped testimony [17], was
on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge about the time
the second tower, the North Tower, fell to the ground. He
saw the tower fall and was enveloped by the resulting thick
dust which settled throughout the area. He swept a handful
of the dust from a rail on the pedestrian walkway near the
end of the bridge, about ten minutes after the fall of the
North Tower. He then went to visit his friend, Mr. Tom
Breidenbach, carrying the dust in his hand, and the two of
them discussed the dust and decided to save it in a plastic
bag. On 11/15/2007, Breidenbach sent a portion of this dust
to Dr. Jones for analysis. Breidenbach has also recorded his
testimony about the collection of this dust sample on videotape
[17]. Thus, the Delessio/Breidenbach sample was collected
about ten minutes after the second tower collapsed. It
was, therefore, definitely not contaminated by the steelcutting
or clean-up operations at Ground Zero, which began
later. Furthermore, it is not mixed with dust from WTC 7,
which fell hours later.
On the morning of 9/12/2001, Mr. Stephen White of New
York City entered a room in his apartment on the 8th floor of
1 Hudson Street, about five blocks from the WTC. He found
a layer of dust about an inch thick on a stack of folded laundry
near a window which was open about 4 inches (10 cm).
Evidently the open window had allowed a significant amount
of dust from the WTC destruction the day before to enter the
room and cover the laundry. He saved some of the dust and,
on 2/02/2008, sent a sample directly to Dr. Jones for analysis
The thermite reaction runs in the absence of air. To prove something other than combustion of the carbonaceous matrix, the DSC must be run under inert gas, such as argon. Jones' incompetently ran it in air and claimed thermite. This was poor protocol and an invalid conclusion.
The DSC energetics were inconsistent with two of the samples producing less energy than thermite and two producing more than thermite and any claimed high energy additive shown. The results are not reproducible and indicative of sloppy technique or something quite different from a "highly engineered" material.
For people with common sense: The samples look like red paint chips and red paint was known to have covered the steel framework. The samples, when analyzed, contain materials common to red paint, don't explode when ignited, don't stay lit when ignited, or otherwise behave surprisingly. It looks as though Jones found red paint.
Originally posted by Stewie
I have said it before and I will say it again.
If we continue to entertain the absurd "debunkers", we are wasting time.
(it pays minimum wage),
they just, and I quote their mission statement here...
"personally engage the 'would-be' detective and challenge EVERY assertion made as if it were the most ridiculous statement ever made. This will bog them down in personal attacks, drive out the uncommitted parties, and derail the 'investigation'."