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A member of the 9/11 commission has broken his silence about some of the unreleased findings:
A former Republican member of the 9/11 commission, breaking dramatically with the commission's leaders, said Wednesday he believes there was clear evidence that Saudi government employees were part of a support network for the 9/11 hijackers and that the Obama administration should move quickly to declassify a long-secret congressional report on Saudi ties to the 2001 terrorist attack.
The comments by John F Lehman, an investment banker in New York who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, signal the first serious public split among the 10 commissioners since they issued a 2004 final report that was largely read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia, which was home to 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 15 2016, @05:26AM
A: I should waste most of an hour, watching a video, which purports to prove all those witnesses wrong? Why?
B: You don't seem to grasp the concept of science. The scientific method isn't terribly complicated.
sci·en·tif·ic meth·od
noun
a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by devlux on Sunday May 15 2016, @07:56AM
Don't bother with this poor confused troll.
I've tried and failed multiple times to explain to them that just giving something a scientific sounding name doesn't make it scientific.
Even if you can build a majority consensus around your theory, that doesn't make it science even if it "sounds scientific".
It just means rigor is lacking in the community and possibly a spine.
Science is a branch of philosophy. One which deals in observation, collection of data and ascertainment of facts.
The scientific method lays out basic standards called rigor, which allows us to attribute the data collected to the hypothesis being tested.
If the data does not support the hypothesis, then the hypothesis is wrong.
Warping the data to "fit" the hypothesis is just intellectual dishonesty.
Remember kids...
A hypothesis is a critical part of science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0CGhy6cNJE [youtube.com]
But it's only one part of a process that requires critical thinking skills and a dedication to uncovering the truth, not just what you "believe to be true".
Anything else is pseudo science or religion.
My kids understood this concept before kindergarten. Yet this guy can't follow it?
At this point it's only a troll and we should quit feeding them and just move on.