Reply #15: I was about to offer my condolences if

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you WERE the good doctor with all the articles in JEM.

It can't be fun being referred to as NIST's fall guy. http://911blogger.com/node/9154/print

or worse:

the NIST piles it higher and deeper: structural engineer Anders Björkman refutes Dr. Zdenek Bazant
Aug 6th, 2010 by Shawn.

Anders Bjorkman
By Shawn Hamilton
Anders Björkman is a structural engineer from France.

Björkman’s reponse to Bazant’s closure

Björkman criticizes Bazant, as well as his theory, in strong terms. “I think he is a criminal. You can quote me because I’ve already said that on my web site,” he said. “This guy is a Lysenko-type scientist. He’s presenting a false theory for whatever purpose. I don’t know why he does it.”
Bazant’s theory, which Bjorkman dubbed the “Pouff Pouff Theory,” can be seen in the following graphic:
http://theswillbucket.com/?p=248

Björkman is so confident in his criticism of Bazant that in March he created The Heiwa Challenge. He offers ten thousand Euros to anyone who can reproduce, within specified parameters, the progressive collapse theory on their own structures.

He notes that as of July 2010, no one has claimed the prize.

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And then there's this guy:

James Gourley Published in “The Journal of Engineering Mechanics”
October 20th, 2008

The Journal of Engineering Mechanics has recently published a paper I authored. It can be found here, beginning on page 915: (PDF 224kb)

The Bazant/Greening Paper

In June 2007, I was sent a link to a paper by Dr. Zdenek Bazant, Dr. Frank Greening, and others, that had been submitted to the Journal of Engineering Mechanics (JEM) for peer review and publication. This paper (the Bazant/Greening Paper) can be found here: (PDF 729kb)

After reading through the Bazant/Greening Paper, I came up with essentially the same criticism that I was eventually able to get published this month at JEM. .... I find the crush down/crush up theory completely unbelievable for the reasons I stated in my paper.

Back in June 2007, I sent an email to the editor of JEM that basically laid out my criticisms of the Bazant/Greening paper. About three weeks later, one of the Associate Editors of JEM sent me an email that read as follows:
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You can imagine my surprise when, in late April 2008, I learned that the Bazant/Greening Paper had been accepted for publication at JEM. The published version can be found here: (PDF 1mb)
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What I would come to realize later is that Dr. Bazant has published hundreds of papers at JEM, and seems to have the standing of something like a “favored author” over there. As will become apparent below, the rules at JEM that govern other authors do not apply to Dr. Bazant.

http://stj911.org/blog/?p=50