Sunstealer, thanks for your detailed explanations easily understood by a layman.
I have done a fair bit of research into this paper, the 'great thermite debate' and Prof Jones from a Truther perspective. The more information you get(if you're willing to accept new information), the more you realize that Jones' work is self-debunking ,and that is the most polite description possible.
As Sunstealer has pointed out, many many times(enough to justify posting thread links, imo) Jones provides enough data within his paper to debunk the conclusions. It's like science irony.
I wholly reject this paper, and therefore refuse to debate the contents, for these two simple reasons:
A) Jones has had ample opportunity to share his samples and have his experiments replicated, duplicated, falsified, whatever. Jones' dishonest nature is easily revealed (to anyone still thinking that he is a earnest scientist) by asking themselves: Why would someone so invested in proving the CD theory not take action to have their evidence verified conclusively?
Jones has two hypothetical choices each day.
1)He could choose to independantly verify his results. This could blow the lid off the whole thing tomorrow(maybe...for arguments sake); the implications of such a conspiracy uncovered would have global consequences.
2)Alternatively, Jones could chose(as he does every day) to keep his samples to himself so no progress is ever made.
Jones make the latter choice each time because there is no real progress to be made; only further obfuscation which, imo, serves to extend the life of his lecture tour.
B) They published in Bentham, which almost serves as immediate invalidation of their paper. Fellow Truthers, please suspend, for a minute, everything you have read from both truthers and debunkers regarding the il/legitimacy of Bentham Journals. Just ask yourself; If Jones had actually made the most important discovery of our lifetimes, why would he pay to have a paper published in a little-known journal not fully recognized by the scientific community? I thought the main purpose of publishing findings was to validate and share new information. Why would Jones chose to publish the 'most important finding ever with the most far-reatching implications ever' in a journal that not many people read and that would forever cast doubt on their findings?
If he wanted validation, he would have absolutely published with a respectable journal. This is not an attack on Bentham, since they're not respected. Sure, you can find a few scientists who will tell you that the open-concept journal has its place. In my opinion, it is a place of business well before science.
Based on these two, easy-to-grasp reasons, I can avoid wasting anymore time on this subject and we haven't even opened the paper; it only gets worse. If this paper had been peer-reviewed, would chemists like Sunstealer be able to point out so many errors, so quickly?
Fellow Truthers; Please be careful and always question the source...many people sell the 'Truth', but the 'Truth', is just a widget, not necessarily the facts. A fool and their money are soon parted....
In conclusion, Jones is a success in his current field. However, he is no longer a professional scientist, he is a professional entertainer. I bet he makes more now than he did then: Has anyone looked at his tax filings? Thermite is a sexy CT to sell, and will draw bigger crowds then a lecture on foreknowledge and the cover-up.
