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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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