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Fantasy Movement Suffers Knockdown
Our good friends James and Pat at SLC posted a small item that merely destroys the underpinnings of much pseudo-science peddled by charlatans like Steven Jones. Please see, "Source of the Glow Revealed."
http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/ |
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Penultimate Amazing
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yes the infamous "molten metal" claimed, is, in fact, a big flashlight...
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The theorists either didn't examine the evidence properly or just neglected it to posit a theory in it's place so that it would help their case.
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I think they're confusing two photos there. The upper one on that page shows ironworkers (they have distinctive helmets), apparently using a torch. The source caption mentions that cleanup was underway.
The lower photo is similar to the photo in Jones' paper that he claimed was firefighters apparently peering into the molten core, but which was simply a rescue or recovery scene lit by artificial light, and which had had its color altered. The "Jones" photo is on display with its original color at Ground Zero, and is in the collection "New York: A Democracy of Photographs." You can see it here, under "Photo follies." In his book "Aftermath," Joel Meyerowitz has a photo that may be of the same rescue/recovery effort as in Jones' paper. I've never seen anyone but Jones misrepresent those photos, and he's aware of the problem, so I don't think this is much of a knockdown this is to the movement. |
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Mark, when you write that Jones is aware of the problem, has he made any corrections in his work? Does he continue to misrepresent the photo? A loon on Smasher's blog posted a photo of a forklift carrying some glowing substance, claiming that it was, of course, molten steel. He was typically oblivious to what molten steel would have done to the forklift. |
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JamesB made him aware of it. He was annoyed that James and I hadn't notified him about these errors, despite the fact that his paper had
1) supposedly been through three rounds of "peer review" and 2) he hadn't responded to previous emails 3) the suggestion that firemen kept their bare faces two feet from an area that's purportedly as hot as a blast furnace, is insane I assume that these photos won't make the cut in "Why Indeed v.4.0" |
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Thanks for the correction, Gravy; I knew there was another photo that had been used but Jones does appear to have removed that.
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That would be "pier reviewed", perhaps. That is, a boozy lunch at an outdoor seafood restaurant, perhaps??
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It's hard to imagine that the peer reviewers could have missed anything, since the reviews were supervised by that paragon of honesty and scientific integrity, Kevin Ryan. The fact that he's Jones' buddy and that the Journal of 9/11 Stundies is run by Jones has no bearing on the outcome of the review, I'm sure.
To give you a serious answer, no, I don't think it's been made public who reviewed the paper each of the three times. To claim that the papers in the Journal are peer reviewed, which Jones constantly does, is to claim that the reviewers are qualified. That's part of the definition of peer review. Man, these frauds sicken me. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Pomeroo, why do you consistently say "fantasists"? As factually accurate as it may be, it isn't all that productive.
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When I'm striving for precision, I call them "conspiracy liars." I think "fantasists" fits the bill nicely and is as neutral as I care to be. Strictly speaking, the tinfoil-hat brigade's notion of a conspiracy of thousands is mathematically impossible and, therefore, a fantasy. I'd choke before I referred to frauds, charlatans, and scoundrels as the "Truth" movement. |
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Or perhaps from someones rectum, a review mysteriously appeered.
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As I've said before on other forums, it becomes very obvious who has and who hasn't ever defended a Master's thesis. I start to wonder how these guys who actually have credentials (however unrelated) managed to obtain them in the first place. Maybe they cracked up after they graduated or seethed all the way through at being challenged and then resolved to prove to the world how abusive they could be of the whole academic process.
As a side note, I was on a different board when the Kevin Ryan email became public and found his name and email for the brief interval between his announcement and termination. I could well imagine that UL's Exchange Server overloaded that day. |
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My interactions via email and face to face with Steven E. Jones are here in four parts: http://ldspatriot.wordpress.com/2006...-jones-and-me/
I'm not a peer of his (I'm just a lowly software engineer) but I did review his paper and gave him evidence and testimony that he ignored repeatedly (read all four parts from above). I also might have run into one of his peer reviewers on a forum - if the guy I ran into is a peer reviewer, then I no longer trust the peer review process as it would be the blind reviewing the blind - blinded by hatred that is. If I find that he did in fact peer review his paper, I'll publish his name here along with a link to his blind personal attacks on me during our 9/11 debate online. |
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Trust me, you can have faith in a LEGITIMATE Peer Review process. That Sham of a journal, has a Sham of a peer review process, except in one sense...
They do have CT loony toons submitting papers that are likely reviewed by other CT loony toons, so in that way the papers are "Peer Reviewed". TAM ![]() |
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Muse
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lol - You're absolutely right!
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The essence of any legitimate peer review process is that the reviewers be selected by a third party and be "anonymous".
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Hey RC -
I'm a software engineer myself, but not lowly. And neither are you. The reason why Jones is no peer of yours is that he does not have the mental capacity to design, code, test and sell programs that can solve a multitude of challenges. What he sells is something else entirely. ![]() |
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