{"id":1262,"date":"2007-09-16T01:49:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T01:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/national-academy-of-sciences-member-calls-for-new-911-investigation\/1262\/"},"modified":"2007-09-16T01:49:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T01:49:05","slug":"national-academy-of-sciences-member-calls-for-new-911-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/national-academy-of-sciences-member-calls-for-new-911-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"National Academy of Sciences Member Calls for New 9\/11 Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">By <\/font><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/author\/author2814.html\"><em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Alan Miller<\/font><\/em><\/a><em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Official Explanation a \u201cFraud\u201d<\/p>\n<p>World renowned scientist, Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., has severely criticized the official account of 9\/11 and called for a new investigation, \u201cI suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9\/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough, and impartial investigation be undertaken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"174\" src=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/maxwrite\/uploaded\/lynn_margulis__phd_070906_1228.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLynn Margulis, PhD<\/span><\/font><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial\">One of America\u2019s most prominent scientists, Dr. Margulis is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts &#8211; Amherst.<span> <\/span>She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983 and served as Chairman of the Academy\u2019s Space Science Board Committee on Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution. In 1999, President Bill Clinton presented Dr. Margulis with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/od\/nms\/recip_details.cfm?recip_id=228\">National Medal of Science<\/a>, America&#8217;s highest honor for scientific achievement, &#8220;for her outstanding contributions to understanding of the development, structure, and evolution of living things, for inspiring new research in the biological, climatological, geological and planetary sciences, and for her extraordinary abilities as a teacher and communicator of science to the public.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial\">In her statement on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriotsquestion911.com\/professors.html#Margulis\">PatriotsQuestion911.com<\/a>, Dr. Margulis referred to 9\/11 as \u201cthis new false-flag operation, which has been used to justify the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as unprecedented assaults on research, education, and civil liberties\u201d.<span> <\/span>She compared 9\/11 to several self-inflicted attacks that had been used in the past to arouse people\u2019s fear and hatred and justify war, including the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, the Reichstag Fire, and Operation Himmler, which Germany used to justify the invasion of Poland, the trigger for World War II.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial\">In her statement, Dr. Margulis cites \u201cthe research and clear writing by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriotsquestion911.com\/professors.html#Griffin\">David Ray Griffin<\/a> in his fabulous books about 9\/11\u201d as a useful source of information and analysis of problems with the official account of 9\/11.<span> <\/span>She specifically lauded <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interlinkbooks.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1326&amp;osCsid=5a22b94fffd724962a118f454c5d7194\">The New Pearl Harbor<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interlinkbooks.com\/product_info.php?products_id=983&amp;osCsid=5a22b94fffd724962a118f454c5d7194\">The 9\/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions<\/a><\/em>, \u201cwhich provides overwhelming evidence that the official story is contradictory, incomplete, and unbelievable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><\/span><em><span style=\"color: black; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial\">Internationally acclaimed for her ground-breaking scientific work, Dr. Margulis is an elected member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldacademy.org\/\"><span>The World Academy of Art and Science<\/span><\/a>, an organization of 500 of the world\u2019s leading thinkers, <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">chosen for eminence in art, the natural and social sciences, and the humanities.<span> <\/span>And in 2006, she was selected as one of \u201c<span>The 20th Century&#8217;s 100 Most Important Inspirational Leaders\u201d by the editors of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resurgence.org\/index.htm\">Resurgence<\/a> magazine.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/font><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Dr. Margulis\u2019 full statement can be read at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriotsquestion911.com\/professors.html#Margulis\">PatriotsQuestion911.com<\/a>.<span> <\/span>More information about Dr. Margulis\u2019 career can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencewriters.org\/\">http:\/\/www.sciencewriters.org<\/a>.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alan Miller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Official Explanation a \u201cFraud\u201d World renowned scientist, Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., has severely criticized the official account of 9\/11 and called for a new investigation, \u201cI suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9\/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-911-truth","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}