As part of the introduction to letters about "The Conspiracy Meme" the editor talks about the letters he received, most of which just asserted that 9/11 was done with explosives. These two were selected "nearly randomly" from the 30 plus received.

"As a registered professional engineer committed to the scientific method, I would like to echo Ted Goertzel's support for the peer-review process. Goertzel says, "review panels must have full access to all datasets ... It is especially important that ... qualified specialists [have] an opportunity to present alternative views ... " Engineers who observe the destruction of WTC 7 as possible only by controlled demolition have been stifled by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) decision to suppress details of their WTC 7 failure models. For example, NIST replied: "Indeed the NIST Director has determined that the release of 3,370 files from the [failure] analysis results ... might jeopardize public safety and therefore, these files have been withheld." Suppressing this analysis from peer review is unconscionable. Public safety is endangered when engineers are precluded from studying how an ordinary office fire could completely and utterly destroy a forty-seven-story modem skyscraper such that for more that 100 feet it exhibited free-fall acceleration. Goertzel notes, "technological conspiracies often ... [make] bizarre claims that ... [information is] suppressed. In this case, it is not a bizarre claim but rather a bizarre reality. We welcome Goertzel's, and SKEPTICAL INQUIRER's, public call for NIST to release its suppressed analysis."

Wayne H. Coste, P.E., Petition Signer, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

"The cover of the January/February 2011 SKEPTICAL INQUIRER is excellent. The drawing and the conspiracy theory formula suit very well what is arguably the grandest contemporary conspiracy: 9/11. Alas, the article itself gets 9/11 all wrong, peremptorily implying that the official "Osama fanatics brought down the Twin Towers with their hijacked jets" theory would be an irrefutable fact. This casts an ominous shadow on the whole article as well as the value of the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER's contributions in the field of parapsychology, where evidence is much more subtle than in the case of the Twin Towers. I strongly encourage you to include in your next edition a solid article on the official 9/11 conspiracy theory with a section on the amply demonstrated controlled demolition of the Twin Towers. Anything less will establish the respectable SKEPTICAL INQUIRER as another agent in 9/11 censorship and an accomplice in the fear, the wars, the economic meltdown, and the neglect of pressing worldwide problems that the 9/11 hysteria has generated."

Dan Noel, Costa Mesa, California

See a PDF of the letters as published in Skeptical Inquirer.

Read AE911Truth's article about this issue of Skeptical Inquirer:
Skeptical Inquirer Attacks 9/11 Truth Movement, Avoids Vast Body of Scientific Evidence