Dr. Frank Legge and His Strange Case of Incongruity

[keenan]

Something is bizarre about the strange incongruity with the way Dr. Frank Legge treats the research of controlled demolition of the WTC as compared to his treatment of the subject of "What Hit the Pentagon?".

Paper "What Hit the Pentagon?"
http://journalof911studies.com/volume/2009/WhatHitPentagonDrLegge.pdf

This short 5 page paper is basically a rehash of Jim Hoffman's old discredited arguments from 2004-2006 in support of the OCT of AA77 having crashed into the Pentagon. Reading Legge's paper, it is obvious that Legge has not even considered research done in the last few years by CIT or P4T, and certainly is not familar with CIT's latest video "National Security Alert" video.

Frank Legge, Ph.D., is co-author of two scientific papers in mainstream peer-reviewed journals regarding evidence for controlled demolition of the World Trade Center: "14 Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction" and the clincher, "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe". Dr. Legge is also a co-author of the important paper "Extremely High Temperatures During the World Trade Center Destruction."

How is it that this scientist can be so thorough and objective with the evidence for controlled demolition and so un-scholarly with his short 5 page paper regarding the Pentagon? For example, the "Active Thermitic" paper is 25 pages and contains 25 references, with every claim supported. His paper on the Pentagon, however, is a skimpy 5 pages long, contains numerous unsupported claims and wild speculation (in order to solve the problem of too small of an entry hole and lack of airplane debris he speculates that the plane was blown up at or just before impact), and uses only 6 references, only 2 of which are related to the Pentagon and both are merely hit pieces against CIT's "Pentacon" video by Jim Hoffman/Victoria Ashley on Jim Hoffman's web sites:

footnotes
5 http://911review.com/articles/ashley/pentacon_con.html
6 http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/pentacon/index.html

It seems obvious that Frank Legge has not actually done any of his own research or independent thinking regarding the Pentagon, but merely took his collegue Jim Hoffman's claims and conclusions on faith without examining any of the source material for himself. Though, at least he makes an attempt to reconcile the contradiction between the small entry hole and lack of aircraft debris on the lawn, which is an improvement from Hoffman's ridiculous assertion that "there's no contradiction at all", even though is solution is pretty unconvincing and merely wild speculation.

What a huge waste of a potential. Imagine if Dr. Frank Legge could put a small fraction of his thoroughness and mental acuity he has shown in research on controlled demolition towards research on "What really happened at the Pentagon?"

My suspicion is that the Jim Hoffman camp was in a panic after the recent endorsement by the 9/11 Truth heaveweights of CIT and their latest video "National Security Alert", which makes it more obvious that Jim Hoffman's "Don't question the OCT of AA77 having crashed at the Pentagon" camp is a tiny a dwindling fringe of the truth movement that has made itself irrelevant. This paper by Dr. Frank Legge bears all the hallmarks of a desperate rushed attempt to bolster the endangered species of Pentagon AA77 huggers that is reapidly becoming extinct and show that Jim Hoffman's camp still has legitimate standing among respected 9/11 truth researchers. But the result was so shoddy, they may have shot themselves in the foot and made themselves appear more desperate.

Lesson to the Jim Hoffman camp that is desperately trying to save their sinking ship of credibility: If you're going to produce a shoddy piece of nonsense, it's probably better to just take a pass altogether, otherwise you risk exposing yourselves even more and sinking faster.