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              More BBC Deceit: The 9/11 Hoax That Didn’t Quite Work
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 On September 11, 2007, the BBC published an article called “9/11 demolition theory challenged“, which described a research paper written by University of Cambridge senior lecturer Keith Seffen. Dr. Seffen, the BBC said, had constructed a mathematical model of the World Trade Center collapses which showed that “once the collapse of the twin towers began, it was destined to be rapid and total.” According to the BBC, Dr. Seffen proceeded from this mathematical model to describe the destruction of the twin towers as a “very ordinary thing to happen”. The BBC also reported that Dr. Seffen’s findings “are published” in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics. The Journal of Engineering Mechanics (JEM) is a monthly publication of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). A search of the ASCE website turned up no mention of a Keith Seffen, nor any mention of any “Seffen”. I wrote a brief item about this that morning. 1) September 11, 2007: Shortly after my piece was published, the BBC page was changed to say that that Dr. Seffen’s findings “are to be published” in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics. I noted the change in an update to my item, where I also provided a link to two different mirrors of the original text. I also noticed the distinctive smell of manure. So I kept digging. It became apparent obvious that the BBC piece was based on a press release from Cambridge, which said (in the opening paragraph) that Dr. Seffen’s findings were “published”, and (much later) that they were “to be published”. Apparently this self-contradiction didn’t raise any eyebrows. But it was not the only problem with the press release. Virtually every paragraph was either misleading or downright false. And it showed very clearly that Seffen’s approach was not scientific, but political. I wrote about the press release on September 14th. 2) September 14, 2007: Nearly eight weeks later, after repeated requests for clarification (from myself and others) had been ignored, I posted a compendium of the coverage Seffen and his paper had received, noting that it had been largely uncritical but remarkably sparse. 3) November 5, 2007: The following day I noted some of the many unanswered questions and documented a series of requests for clarification which had been ignored by Dr. Seffen and by Dr. Ross Corotis, the editor of the JEM. 4) November 6, 2007: Several readers of the latter two stories joined in the effort to obtain further information. Some of them had academic credentials, and their requests stirred Dr. Corotis to action. Two days later, I was pleased to report on a message from the ASCE, saying that according to their records, Dr. Seffen’s paper is scheduled for publication in the February 2008 JEM. 5) November 8, 2007: This was good news for two reasons. It marked the first public commitment from the ASCE to publish the paper. And it provided confirmation of the fact that the paper had not been published when it was cited (and referred to as published) by the BBC and others. Then another reader — one with even more impressive credentials — started digging in a different place, and unearthed a copy of the paper itself. The following day I posted the first few pages of Seffen’s paper (in HTML) on my website 6) November 9, 2007: I also provided a link to the entire paper (a small PDF file). http://winterpatriot.pbwiki.com/f/seffen_simple_analysis.pdf True to the description provided by the press release, the paper turned out to be worthless as science, but not entirely meaningless. 7) November 11, 2007: Via the fantastic Winter Patriot site, make sure you add them to your bookmarks Have Your Say: More BBC Deceit: The 9/11 Hoax That Didn’t Quite Work Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. One Response to “More BBC Deceit: The 9/11 Hoax That Didn’t Quite Work”
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[...] academic, Dr. Keith Seffen of the University of Cambridge, published a new mathematical analysis of the collapse of the World Trade Centre – however the paper contains several ridiculous [...]