Papers

WTC 7 and the Lies of the 9/11 Truth Movement – An examination of how the conspiracist claims of WTC 7's condition and collapse correspond to reality, with numerous first responder accounts.

William Rodriguez, Escape Artist– To a hero of 9/11, the truth is a straitjacket.

An open letter to John Schroeder, formerly of FDNY Engine 10– His conspiracist interviewers repeatedly fail to clear up his confusion, then use his confused story to try to support their claims.

Loose Change Creators Speak: My compilation of horrors and falsehoods from Dylan Avery & co. (PDF)

Loose Change 2nd Edition Viewer guide: Not a single claim right, and 81 factual errors in 81 minutes. Really. (April, 2006. Thanks to Curt C. for doing all the coding and hosting the site!)

The Truth about the “9/11 Truth Movement” - A look at the claims in the pamphlet distributed by NY911truth.org in New York City (May, 2006)


Videos by Me

New, January 15, 2008: The Ground Zeros, part 4.1 "Honey, I been knockin' on your cellar door..."

New, December 20, 2007:World Trade Center Not a Demolition (47 minutes)
Index to scenes in above video, with direct links.

South tower inward bowing of exterior wall, no smoke-disturbing detonations precede collapse

South tower fake collapse audio promoted by truthers as real

What actual explosive demolitions look and sound like

North tower audio deception in Loose Change

"I heard a bomb" – witnesses using figures of speech to describe loud sounds. Includes interview with Hursley Lever, witness to the north tower elevator shaft fireball.

Use and effects of steel cutter charges.

A few pounds of cutter charges = huge boom and flash.

Structural Engineer, collapse expert, and Weidlinger Associates WTC investigator Matthys Levy on conspiracy theories

North tower "squibs" compared to explosive blasts

Explosive demolitions eject debris, sometimes dangerously.

Les Robertson, Twin Towers head engineer, on conspiracy claims

WTC 7: deceptive claims made by conspiracists, collapse expected by media

FDNY Chief Daniel Nigro on conspiracist claims

Collapse of WTC 7 expected by all. On-scene account by FDNY firefighter Miller of Ladder 15, says building leaning, no way to fight fires, pull back from WTC 7

Brent Blanchard of Protec, who spoke with demolitions experts on the scene and documented the clean-up process, on conspiracist claims

WTC 7 structural engineer Irwin Cantor on conspiracist claims

New WTC 7: safety and structural features

"Architect for 9/11 truth" Richard Gage gives presentation including audio deception

AE911Truth and STJ911truth member and mechanical engineer Tony Szamboti claims Silvertstein said WTC 7 was brought down for safety reasons, and claims the towers showed upward explosions.

Leading conspiracists claim pyroclastic flows resulted from use of mysterious explosives.

Was all or most of the WTC tower concrete turned to a fine powder?

Conspiracists claim tons of explosives – or a sci-fi mystery weapon was used. Video of 100-ton TNT blast

Steven Jones, David Ray Griffin, and Richard Gage can't make up their minds: explosives, thermate, or super-secret mystery weapons?

Tons of TNT equivalent were stored in the towers – gravitational potential energy

Mysteriously-expanding dust clouds? Alex Jones accuses, Jim Hoffman investigates.

So what caused THESE dust clouds?

Conspiracist papers published in engineering journals

The conspiracists' best and brightest run from. a tour guide

AE911truth & STJ911truth website statistics graphed

Structural engineer and WTC investigator Gene Corley on conspiracist methods – or lack thereof.

Suggestions for study: Bazant, Greening, Mackey, Rogers
During discussion of the above video, the question arose: can the peak audio limiters in video cameras filter out loud noises like detonations while preserving sounds like sirens and crowd noises? Audio pro Mark De Martini weighs in, in words and pictures: no.


The Ground Zeros– A hilarious and disturbing 52-minute video journal documenting the lies, ignorance, and bizarre behavior of the 9/11 "Truth Movement" at Ground Zero in New York.

Comparison of WTC collapses to high explosive blasts, close-up video of south tower inward buckling (companion to John Schroeder paper, 10 mins.)

Airliner high-speed, low-level fly-bys (1 min. 30 secs.)

Loose Change Final Cut Trailer Final Cut Recut (Spoof, with real quotes from these exceptionally nasty and ignorant hypocrites.) 10 minute video.

WTC 1 North Tower Collapse From North Close-Up (30 seconds)

Flight 93 Witnesses (1 min. 15 secs.)


TV Appearances and other Videos in which I Appear

March, 2008: The TAM 5.5 presentations are now available on DVD.

February, 2008: A new Hardfire show is available for viewing. Ron Wieck, me, and Arthur Scheuerman, FDNY Battalion Chief (ret'd), discuss WTC 7. We couldn't get any truthers to defend their WTC 7 claims on the show. We also did a live call-in show, but the producer forgot to record it.

February, 2008: BBC TV spent part of two days videotaping me for their upcoming show on WTC 7. The broadcast date hasn't been announced yet.

Hardfire TV Program: Wieck & Roberts vs. Avery & Bermas of Loose Change: Part 1 – Part 2

Hardfire TV program: Wieck, Roberts, Fetzer: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3

Hardfire TV program: Roberts and Wieck take calls from two wackos and a rational person.

"I'm Not a Wizard" – Truthers at Ground Zero try to explain "official" story, and fail miserably.

9/11 Conspiracy Wars by Abby Scott & Ray Rivera: loons at Ground Zero, with a cameo by me.

Although I'm not interviewed, I can be seen 6 times in The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction. This incisive documentary analyzes the extreme, yet persistent, theories that cloud the memory of our national tragedy. 2 Hours.