“We might be wrong to think that someone like Shyam Sunder should have met with people like Dr. Steven Jones to at least look at the information he has collected.”

I’d like you to consider the possibility that you know CD better than you know 9/11 Truth Movement strategy.

The people running this site have a lot of shared experience and understanding of that. Victoria Ashley, for instance, not only knows as much as anyone about CD but also, very importantly, understands how it fits into the bigger picture of the movement. She has a balanced understanding of it’s role among many other concerns and also clearly understands how it has been used to undermine the movement.

That is very specifically something lacking among many of the movement ‘scholars.’ In fact, many of the scholars have done the movement a great dis-service by taking on leadership roles without first becoming more familiar with the movement’s character and dynamics.

My education in 9/11 truth movement dynamics, and that of many here, took years of direct experience and close attention to the swamp of disinformation that many of the ‘scholars’ have basically ignored. I don’t know physics. I know disinformation.

Scholars don’t make good leaders because scholars are supposed to remain apolitical in their field. We need them to be good scientists and that’s it. We’re not asking them to be good at promotion. However, if they do want to take on leadership roles they certainly can’t act like being a physicist makes them good at political activism.

For that reason, I feel what we need is promotion moving the opposite direction than you seem to be pushing. We need the scholars to better acknowledge the practical knowledge of people who have shown leadership in strategic action. We need the scholars to remind people to read books like the Terror Timeline and The War on Truth. Frankly, we need other scholars to take a page from Gage, and his recent retraction of support for CIT, and use their intellect to help us take apart damaging speculation.

Jon Gold can’t make CD go away, if he wanted that. And it seems we have Vic and Jon posting here together without any heads rolling. It would be cool if you could add a layer of nuance to your repeated promotion of the centrality of CD research and maybe acknowledge that there is more to 9/11 truth than having facts in hand.