As supporters of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth try to expand the reach of its message, we encounter barriers that make this difficult. One response to this is to find other strategies for outreach.

One of the emerging strategies is to attend various conventions in an attempt to educate activists for other causes about what really happened to the Twin Towers and WTC Building 7. Following our outreach to the United National Anti-War Conference, AE911Truth activists requested an exhibit booth at the Netroots Nation convention in Providence, RI. 

Netroots Nation comprises bloggers, activists and grassroots media and describes itself as a “big political family” whose tent is broad. According to its website, “we all can agree that America has gone off the rails and it’s time to get back on track with policy that is fair and just for everyone.” Despite this proclamation, our request for an exhibit booth at the event was denied with the following explanation:

 “I'm really sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but we can't have you exhibit at Netroots Nation. When I passed this through our political channels they vetoed it. So sorry you won't be able to join us in the Hall.”

Editor’s note: This is Part 5 (see Part 4) of an extensive report by 9/11 researcher Adam Taylor that exposes the fallacies and flaws in the arguments made by the editors of Popular Mechanics (PM) in the latest edition of Debunking 9/11 Myths. We encourage you to submit your own reviews of the book at Amazon.com and other places where it is sold.

(Quotes from Popular Mechanics’ book are shown in red and with page numbers.)

The next section of PM’s book deals with another subject not previously dealt with in the 2006 edition: the nanothermite discovered in dust samples from the World Trade Center. PM’s stated objective of the updated book is to debunk “the most common speculation about free-fall times, ‘nanothermite,’ and other aspects of the Twin Towers’ collapses…,” (pg. xxii). However, PM’s section regarding nanothermite utterly fails to do this – not because it presents weak scientific arguments, but because it provides virtually no scientific arguments at all.

Molten Metal Flowing from the South Tower

PM’s only scientific criticism of claims made by individuals in the 9/11 Truth movement in regards to thermite applies to the spout of molten metal seen coming from the 81st floor of the South Tower, which some have cited as evidence of a thermite-based demolition for the Towers. In spite of photographs and numerous eyewitness accounts of molten steel/iron and concrete, PM chooses to address only this one example. PM’s explanation for this is simply that the material is molten aluminum, a claim echoed by other defenders of the official narrative. It is also a claim that has been thoroughly refuted. PM cites NIST as saying that the material may have been molten aluminum, but individuals such as Dr. Steven Jones have demonstrated – by experiment – that, in daylight conditions, molten aluminum appears silvery and does not glow brightly like the metal seen coming from the South Tower.[i]