Naom Chomsky
Noam Chomsky Has No Opinion on Building 7
Noam Chomsky Schools 9/11 Truther; Explains the Science of Making Credible Claims https://www.openculture.com/2013/10/noam-chomsky-derides-911-truthers.html
Part 1: Noam Chomsky Has No Opinion on Building 7
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all right
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now thanks for coming uh
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you've mentioned quite a few
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contradictions from the media and their
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presentation on things
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and i think the most uh notorious case
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of this
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is with september 11 2001.
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you mentioned in a forum on z-net
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in 2006 that you wanted to see a
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consensus of
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engineers and specialists that
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understand the actual structures of
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these buildings and their possible
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collapse
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and there is such a group and i'm here
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to tell you about that and ask you a
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follow-up question
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it's called architects and engineers for
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9 11
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truth there's a consensus of over two
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thousand dollars right
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is this a question i'm asking a question
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i'm setting it up thank you
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this consensus shows that building seven
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the third building that fell on 911 fell
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in free fall speed as this report
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acknowledges
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are you ready to come forward and jump
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on board with 911 i know you've
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mentioned it's a distraction but there's
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no better case
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of the media covering up things than not
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presenting building seven that third
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building we've all seen the other towers
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fall but what about building seven gnome
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well in fact uh you're right that
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there's a consensus among a
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minuscule number of architects and
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engineers
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tiny number their couple of them are
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perfectly serious
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they are not doing what scientists and
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engineers do
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when they think they've discovered
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something what you do
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when you think you've discovered
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something what you do
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is write articles and scientific
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journals
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gift talks at the professional societies
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that go to the civil engineering
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department at mit
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or florida or wherever you are and
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present your
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results and then proceed to try to
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convince
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the national academies the professional
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society
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of physicists and civil engineers the
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departments and the major universities
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convince them that you've discovered
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something
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now there happened to be a lot of people
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around who spent
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an hour on the internet and think they
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know a lot of physics
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but it doesn't work like that there's a
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reason why there are
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i mean there's a reason there's a math
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finish
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there's a reason why there are graduate
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schools in these departments and
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and research so the thing to do is
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pretty straightforward
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do what scientists and engineers do who
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think they've made a discovery
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now when this is brought up as it has
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been
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uh there are one or two minor articles
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like this one article that appeared in
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an online
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journal which claims to have found
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where someone claims to have found
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traces of nanothermite
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in building seven i don't know what that
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means
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you don't know what that means uh but if
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it means anything
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bring it to the attention of the
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scientific community that's
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a couple of other fragments like that so
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yes
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there are there's a small group of
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people who believe this
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and there's a straightforward way to
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proceed now when this is brought up
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there's a standard reaction
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scientists and engineers and
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professional societies and
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physicists are so intimidated by the
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government
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that they're afraid to take to they
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don't have the courage to take this
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position
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anyone who has any part record of part
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any familiarity with political activism
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knows that this is one of the safest
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things you can do
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it's almost riskless people take risks
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far beyond this constantly including
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scientists and engineers
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i could have run through and can run
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through
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many examples i mean you know is it kind
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of a
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maybe people laugh at you but that's
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about it
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it's an almost riskless position so that
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can't be the reason why nobody's
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convinced
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however there's a much more deeper issue
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which has been brought up
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repeatedly and i have yet to hear a
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response to it
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there happens to be whatever one thinks
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about building seven
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frankly i have no opinion i i don't know
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as much uh science and engineering as
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the people who believe that they have an
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answer to this
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so i am willing to let the professional
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societies
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determine it if they get the information
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so whatever the facts
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there's just overwhelming evidence that
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the bush administration wasn't involved
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very elementary evidence you don't have
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to be a physicist to understand it
Bush was not involved with 9/11
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you just have to think for a minute okay
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so let's think for a minute the
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there's a couple of facts which are
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uncontroversial right
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one fact that is uncontroversial is that
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the bush administration
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desperately wanted to invade iraq that's
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a long-standing goal it's good reasons
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for it
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the second largest energy resources in
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the world
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right in the middle of the world's major
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energy producing region you know
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perfectly obvious reasons
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which they in fact later stated but they
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were obvious anyway
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so they wanted to invade iraq one
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uncontroversial fact
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second uncontroversial fact they didn't
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blame the
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911 on iraqis they blamed it on saudis
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mainly that's their major ally so they
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blamed it
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on people from their major ally
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not on the country that they wanted to
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invade
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a third uncontroversial fact unless
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they're total
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lunatics they would have blamed it on
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iraqis
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if they were involved in any way that
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would have given them
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a open season on invading iraq
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a total support international support
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a u.n resolution no need to
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concoct wild stories about
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the weapons of mass destruction and
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contacts between saddam and al-qaeda
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which of course quickly exploded
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discrediting them
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no reason to invade afghanistan which
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mostly a waste of time for them
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but they didn't well the
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conclusion is pretty straightforward
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either they are total lunatics
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or they weren't involved and they're not
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total lunatics
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so whatever you think about building
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seven there are other considerations to
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be
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concerned with all right i think our
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speaker
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answered that question succinctly so
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that's the
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