After the Circus

The previously hidden author of the "Flying Elephants" paper at the Journal of 9/11 Studies, has gone public in a letter to the same. He is now revealing his side of the story regarding how this horrible piece of research came to be:

The "Flying Elephant" was not a creature of "malicious intent" but rather a product of discussion originating on a thread in the old st911 forum. Several member/researchers were at the time seeking visual evidence to support the supposition of remote guidance and/or aerial war games (assuming the hits on
CD=prepped towers would not be left to chance).

I am not aware of anyone accusing him of "malicious intent", we just thought he was an idiot. This is what happens when you assume a theory, and desperately search for evidence to back it up, no matter how ridiculous, and are in a link-minded echo chamber of people who will do nothing but encourage you.

He continues later:

In a defensive reflex I resigned from st911 and asked for the paper to be removed from the Journal. Judy Wood, then co-editor of the Journal emailed me requesting to be allowed to keep it as "property of st911", to which I naively agreed. Without consultation, in what I still regard as a well-meaning protective gesture, Jim Fetzer quickly issued his "press release", magnifying the error.

First of all, how the heck does Fetzer get from "My paper sucks, I resign" to "People are sending me death threats over my paper"?

Secondly why should he resign? This paper underwent a review by hundreds of "experts" in the Scholars' forum, and then underwent a "peer review" process at the esteemed "Journal for 9/11 Studies". It is not like this was some obscure subject that was open to interpretation, the debunkers spotted the problems within a matter of minutes. If anyone should resign it should be the editors of the Journal, like Steven Jones, who organized such a lame review that this paper was considered for publication in the first place!

So I want to a lead a call for the reinstatement of Reynolds Dixon! Fire Steven Jones instead.

BTW, on a related note, even after complaining that I didn't notify him of problems with his photo earlier, Jones refuses to reply to my previous "open letter", not even to say whether he will comment on it. I know he is getting my e-mails though, because he replied to another on a different subject. Why does this not surprise me?