Reply #17: Regarding NIST

[scott75]

How do you deal with the fact that the world is literally full of people who understand the collapses very well?

Such as the people at NIST? David Ray Griffin, in his book The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, had this to say about this organization:

By way of preparing readers for how shockingly bad NIST's report is, I will point out that NIST is not a neutral, independent organization: it is an agency of the US Department of Commerce. While NIST was writing its report, therefore, it was an agency of the Bush administration, which, according to a statement signed by over 12,000 scientists (including 52 Nobel Laureates and 63 recipients of the National Medal of Science), has been guilty of engaging in "distortion of scientific knowledge for partisan political ends."31

A former NIST employee has, in fact, reported that in recent years his agency has been "fully hijacked from the scientific into the political realm." As a result, scientists working for NIST "lost scientific independence, and became little more than 'hired guns.'" With regard to 9/11-related issues, this whistleblower said:
By 2001, everyone in NIST leadership had been trained to pay close heed to political pressures. There was no chance that NIST people "investigating" the 9/11 situation could have been acting in the true spirit of scientific independence.... Everything that came from the hired guns was by then routinely filtered through the front office, and assessed for political implications before release.