Jones has been interviewed by mainstream news sources and has made a number of public appearances. While Jones has urged caution in drawing conclusions,
[25] some believe that his public comments have suggested a considerable degree of certainty about both the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center and the culpability of elements within the U.S. government.
[26] In one interview, he asserted that the attacks were "an 'inside job', puppeteered by the
neoconservatives in the
White House to justify the occupation of oil-rich
Arab countries, inflate
military spending, and expand
Israel."
[27] His name is often mentioned in reporting about
9/11 conspiracy theories.
[28]
Jones has published several papers suggesting that the World Trade Center was demolished with explosives, but his 2005 paper, "Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?" was his first paper on the topic and was considered controversial both for its content and its claims to scientific rigor.
[29] Jones' early critics included members of BYU's engineering faculty;
[30] shortly after he made his views public, the BYU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and the faculty of structural engineering issued statements in which they distanced themselves from Jones' work. They noted that Jones' "hypotheses and interpretations of evidence were being questioned by scholars and practitioners," and expressed doubts about whether they had been "submitted to relevant scientific venues that would ensure rigorous technical peer review."
[31]
Jones maintained that the paper was peer-reviewed prior to publication within a book "9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out" by
D.R. Griffin[32] The paper was published in the online peer-reviewed, "Journal of 9/11 Studies", a journal co-founded and co-edited by Jones for the purpose of "covering the whole of research related to 9/11/2001." The paper also appeared in
Global Outlook,
[33] a magazine "seeking to reveal the truth About 9/11"
[34] and in a volume of essays edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott.
[35]
In April 2008, Jones, along with four other authors, published a letter in
The Bentham Open Civil Engineering Journal, titled, 'Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction'
[36]. In August 2008, Jones, along with Kevin Ryan and James Gourley, published a peer-reviewed article in
The Environmentalist, titled, 'Environmental anomalies at the World Trade Center: Evidence for energetic materials'.
[37] And in April 2009, Jones, along with Niels H. Harrit and 7 other authors published a paper in
The Open Chemical Physics Journal, titled, 'Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe'.
[38] The editor of the journal, Professor
Marie-Paule Pileni, an expert in explosives
[39] and nano-technology
[40], resigned as she received media inquiries about the article shortly after its publication.
[41] Also of note, Bentham Publishing's peer review process has been drawn into question.
[42]
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