I didn't even know it was up on the O-D website until I used Google (the O-D itself hosting the Little Search Engine That Couldn't), but Herb Smith's letter on the NIST report was published this past Thursday. Here's the letter:
The latest report on tower collapse fails
The National Institute for Standards and Technology, which produced the official report of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, was unable to explain the collapse of WTC-7. They have contracted out an explanation for the collapse of the 47-story skyscraper with the stipulation that only the behavior of floors 8-46 be considered.
NIST, as with their pre-collapse report on the towers, has again failed to satisfy a fundamental requirement of scientific reasoning — the requirement of total evidence. This requirement states scientific reasoning must be based upon all the relevant evidence.
Clearly the behavior of every floor is relevant to the investigation, and therefore the upcoming report should be dismissed out of hand.
HERBERT SMITH
Utica
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