Reputation Go Bang!

Yesterday, the Moonie-owned Washington Times published some conspirazoid stuff about the collapse of the World Trade Centre on 9/11, citing "a former Bush team member during his first administration" as the source.

Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7.

It's worth noting because the Times has always been a friend to the Bush family. A very good friend. In fact, it's reportedly the only paper George W. Bush reads.

The quotes pick up from this June 9 analysis by Reynolds, a professor emeritus at Texas A&M University and former director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis headquartered in Dallas, TX. Not exactly a typical member of the tin-hat brigade.

It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause(s) of the collapse of the twin towers and building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely prove to be sound. Revised engineering and construction practices, for example, based on the belief that the twin towers collapsed through airplane damage and subsequent fires is premature, to say the least.

More importantly, momentous political and social consequences would follow if impartial observers concluded that professionals imploded the WTC. If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an "inside job" and a government attack on America would be compelling. Meanwhile, the job of scientists, engineers and impartial researchers everywhere is to get the scientific and engineering analysis of 9/11 right, "though heaven should fall." Unfortunately, getting it right in today’s "security state" demands daring because explosives and structural experts have been intimidated in their analyses of the collapses of 9/11.

I don't know from structural engineering. What I do know is from media. And I can tell you that the next controlled demolition will be of Reynolds' career and credibility.

Wait for Fox News to get a hold of him.