9/11 debate shouldn’t be a debate anymore

I disagree with The Gazette's July 22 editorial “9/11: Open for debate.” The debate is over.

Popular Mechanics magazine, first in a March 2005 cover story and later in an expanded book, “Debunking 9/11 Myths,” takes apart the 9/11 conspiracy theories. It says, “In every case we examined, the key claims made by conspiracy theorists turned out to be mistaken, misinterpreted, or deliberately falsified.”

The American Society of Civil Engineers and Federal Emergency Management Agency conducted independent investigations into the collapse of the Twin Towers. They concluded the massive structural damage caused by the crashing of the airplanes into the buildings, combined with the intense heat of subsequent fires, “were sufficient to induce the collapse of both structures.”

The National Institute of Standards and Technology did its own 43-volume study of the collapse, and came to the same conclusion.

Tobey Long

Marion