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Online-Ressource (556 p)
ISBN:
9781566567862
Content:
At 5:20 in the afternoon on 9/11, Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed, even though it had not been struck by a plane and had fires on only a few floors. The reason for its collapse was considered a mystery. In August 2008, NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) issued its report on WTC 7, declaring that "the reason for the collapse of World Trade Center 7 is no longer a mystery" and that ?science is really behind what we have said." Showing that neither of these claims is true, David Ray Griffin demonstrates that NIST is guilty of the most serious types of scienti
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Frequently Cited Works; Introduction: The Background to NIST's WTC 7 Report; Part I: NIST's Unscientific Rejection of the Most Likely Theory; 1. NIST as a Political, Not a Scientific, Agency; 2. Some Principles of Scientific Method; 3. NIST's Refusal to Begin with the Most Likely Hypothesis; 4. NIST's Ignoring of Physical Evidence for Explosives; 5. NIST's Ignoring of Testimonial Evidence for Explosives; 6. NIST's Straw-Man Arguments against Explosives; Part II: NIST's Unscientific Arguments for Its Own Theory
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7. NIST's Theory of an Unprecedented Collapse: An Overview8. The Initiation and Spread of Fires: NIST's Unempirical Account; 9. Fire and Steel Temperatures: Implausible Claims Based on Distorted Data; 10. From Thermal Expansion to Global Collapse: Fabrications and Contradictions; Conclusion: NIST's WTC 7 Report as Unscientific and False; Appendix A: Why did Explosions in WTC 7 Begin by 9:30 AM ?; Appendix B: Another Towering Inferno that did not Collapse; Notes; Index; Back Cover;
Additional Edition:
9781623710262
Additional Edition:
Print version The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7 : Why the Official Final Report about 9/11 Is Unscientific and False
Language:
English
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