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BYU Scholar, Sept. 11 Theorist, Resigns
Washinton Post ^ | AP

Posted on 10/21/2006 4:03:19 PM PDT by Logophile

PROVO, Utah -- A Brigham Young University physics professor who suggested the World Trade Center was brought down by explosives has resigned, six weeks after the school placed him on leave.

"I am electing to retire so that I can spend more time speaking and conducting research of my choosing," physics professor Steven Jones said in a statement released by the school.

His retirement is effective Jan. 1, 2007.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 911conspiracies; charliesheen
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1 posted on 10/21/2006 4:03:19 PM PDT by Logophile
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To: Logophile; colorcountry

Scholar? Sure....


2 posted on 10/21/2006 4:06:15 PM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah, where the world comes to see America)
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To: Logophile

Leftist Professor, 9-11 Kook Theorist, Resigns

Headline fixed.
3 posted on 10/21/2006 4:07:04 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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To: Logophile
Researching the effect of magic mushrooms on the brain?

Researching the effect of LSD on the brain?

Researching to see how many times he can get on CSPIN to spew his madness?

4 posted on 10/21/2006 4:09:41 PM PDT by OldFriend (CNN CELEBRATING THE DEATH OF OUR HEROES)
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To: Logophile
"I am electing to retire so that I can spend more time speaking and conducting research of my choosing," physics professor Steven Jones said in a statement released by the school.

"I'm sifting through hundreds of job offers extended by "enlightened" universities who are eager to have me join their faculty so I can continue to spread my moonbat conspiracy crap. While I take my time choosing which one to take, I'll be making a comfortable living making the rounds of the MSM outlets as a 9/11 "expert" and speaking at ANSWER rallies."

5 posted on 10/21/2006 4:11:25 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: Logophile
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Isn't this the guy did work supposedly validating the cold fusion work?
As I remember it was a numerical artifact that he was attributing as evidence for cold fusion.
6 posted on 10/21/2006 4:13:10 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Logophile
I figured he ran out of heroin and sobered up, realized what he had been saying and wanted to hide out.
7 posted on 10/21/2006 4:16:24 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Utah Binger

Hmmm......I wonder....is he related to the other "wack job", Alex Jones?


8 posted on 10/21/2006 4:27:07 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Islam is the Death Cult of Perpetual Outrage!)
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To: Logophile

Once upon a time, Steve Jones was a highly regarded physicist. Someone seems to have slipped something into his tea that atrophied his judgement.


9 posted on 10/21/2006 4:27:29 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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Can someone explain how it is that these idiots believe that explosives suffient to bring down even one floor of the WTC managed to survive the heat and fire from the jet fuel for 1 hour without burning (like c4) or exploding instantly when the jets hit? It takes a considerable act of faith to believe what they do.


10 posted on 10/21/2006 4:57:37 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: OldFriend
Good note ~ not just "magic mushrooms" like amanita muscaria, but cactus buds as well ~ sounds like another Apostolic Charismatic Church of the First Born type has slipped into yet another Mormon institution and sold them BS (if not phoney insurance policies) for years and years.

Always good when these primitives get caught and sent packing.

11 posted on 10/21/2006 4:59:51 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Logophile
Outstanding! I certainly wouldn't want an idiot who knew so little about physics teaching my kids!

I saw the collaspses in realtime on TV. As the first building was falling, it only took as second or so before I realized that what looked -- at first impression -- like an explosion was merely air compressed and forced out by the "pancake collapse piston" effect of the falling upper floors.

12 posted on 10/21/2006 5:26:05 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: Logophile

He'll be on Larry King, 60 Minutes and the Daily show in less than a week.


13 posted on 10/21/2006 5:37:45 PM PDT by navyguy
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To: muawiyah

Sadly tho, I believe Ward Churchill is still getting paid by Colorado University.


14 posted on 10/21/2006 6:06:06 PM PDT by OldFriend (CNN CELEBRATING THE DEATH OF OUR HEROES)
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To: Reily
Isn't this the guy did work supposedly validating the cold fusion work?

Yes, it is.

As I remember it was a numerical artifact that he was attributing as evidence for cold fusion.

I'm afraid I quit paying serious attention to cold fusion before that point, so I don't recall what conclusion he came to (if any). To a layman like me, his work seemed more serious and credible than Pons and Fleischmann.

15 posted on 10/21/2006 6:11:20 PM PDT by Vroomfondel
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To: Wonder Warthog
Once upon a time, Steve Jones was a highly regarded physicist. Someone seems to have slipped something into his tea that atrophied his judgement.

Well, being a BYU professor, I doubt he drinks tea. So it must have been someone slipping palladium into his caffeine free Coca-Cola.

16 posted on 10/21/2006 6:12:31 PM PDT by Vroomfondel
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To: Vroomfondel

I dunno. Just because he's at BYU doesn't necessitate that he is Mormon.


17 posted on 10/21/2006 6:16:34 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Can someone explain how it is that these idiots believe that explosives suffient to bring down even one floor of the WTC managed to survive the heat and fire from the jet fuel for 1 hour without burning (like c4) or exploding instantly when the jets hit?

I'm no expert on the 9-11 Nutters in particular, but it would be absolutely typical of their type if they simply avoided engaging such salient and crucial questions entirely, via distracting arm-waving and subject changing.

That seems to be the pattern as far as I can tell. (That is without having undertaken the tedious and painful task of surveying their literature and rants in detail.) I've certainly never heard one of these freaks attempt to explain this, or even say whether they think the explosives were placed before or after the plane (or "missile") strikes.

18 posted on 10/21/2006 6:30:16 PM PDT by Stultis
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"That is without having undertaken the tedious and painful task of surveying their literature and rants in detail."

I once made the mistake of trying to pin one such nut job down.

He claimed that the CIA / FBI / Haliburton / Trilateral Commission / Cheney was planting people into their movement with really crazy ideas, in order to discredit their movement. So, the people who claimed that the "missiles" were disguised as airplanes using holograms are really government planted nut cases.

I think South Park had the correct take on such people -- 1/4 of the population are retards (their term). Remember, 15% of the US population believed that Elvis was alive for 20 years after he died.


19 posted on 10/21/2006 6:56:23 PM PDT by TWohlford
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Can someone explain how it is that these idiots believe that explosives sufficient to bring down even one floor of the WTC managed to survive the heat and fire from the jet fuel for 1 hour without burning (like c4) or exploding instantly when the jets hit?

That's easy. There were no jets or fires. It was all done in a government studio, right next to where they faked the moon landing.

20 posted on 10/21/2006 8:01:52 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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