Richard Gage, founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, said UW-Madison should investigate the events of 9/11 since the school is “obligated to intellectual honesty” at lecture Thursday.

Originally posted at The Daily Cardinal

Architect Richard Gage spoke to the UW-Madison Sifting and Winnowing Club Thursday about apparent inconsistencies between the actual events of September 11 and the official narratives of the tragedy.

The Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, of which Gage is the founder, called on the university to look into the events of 9/11 in an e-mail to The Daily Cardinal and other Madison area media outlets last week.

The group said UW-Madison is obligated to intellectual honesty and must follow its motto: "sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found."

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth is a nonprofit organization "dedicated to exposing the falsehoods and to revealing truths about the collapses of the 3 World Trade Center high-rises on September 11, 2001," according to the group's website.

AE911Truth has received support from around 1,000 architects and engineers in their call for investigation of the official reports.

The lecture was sponsored by We Are Change, a nation-wide organization dedicated to "revealing the truth of September 11th and the lies of the government and corporate elite."

Members of the group's Wisconsin and Minnesota branches attended the lecture.

"I believe that you all will walk away tonight with a better idea of what is science and what is conspiracy," Gage said before beginning his presentation.

Gage said the collapses were reminiscent of controlled demolitions, showing numerous video clips of the falling World Trade Center buildings and eyewitness testimonies that described the destruction as reminiscent of controlled demolitions.

He repeatedly showed the collapse of one of the towers aside footage of controlled skyscraper demolitions.

Gage said the government and media misrepresented the September 11 events.

"What we have here is being described as an apple, when it's really an orange," Gage said.

In 2004, the federal government released a report based on 2.5 million pages of documents and 1,200 interviews detailing the workings of a "sophisticated, patient, disciplined and lethal" terrorist attack.