‘Where Did the Towers Go?’ The ‘most important book of the 21st century’

By Eric Larsen

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I reviewed Dr. Judy Wood's new book, “Where Did the Towers Go? The Evidence of Directed Free-Energy Technology on 9/11.” So?

Well, look at my credentials: Retired English professor, writer, literary publisher. How do I justify going a light-year outside my field to review a book of science?

Three things need to be said. First, when it came out, I'd already reviewed Dr. Wood's book, since I wrote the Foreword to it. (What did I think of it? First sentence: “The book you now hold in your hands is the most important book of the 21st century.”)

Next: High school math, chemistry, physics, “bonehead bio” in college, a teaspoon of math, a term of geology - these made of me no scientist. Still: I'm not an idiot, I read a lot, I can think straight - and I'm honest.

And those are traits that make me - as they would anyone - a good match for “Where Did the Towers Go?” Dr. Wood is a true scientist, and there's plenty of science in her book. But she is also an extraordinarily clear writer and a highly gifted explainer. Her book is complex, dealing with “field effects,” “molecular dissociation,” “transmutation,” and other things. But Dr. Wood (as I wrote in my Foreword) “has the gift ... of being able ... to express ideas of the greatest complexity in terms readily understandable to any interested and attentive layman.”

Her gift is so great that a reader actually becomes a scientist, learning to think by seeing with his or her own eyes.

Still, why me to step in as the “interested and attentive lay person” instead of a scientist, whose qualifications would reflect significantly on the book?

When the subject turns to 9/11, it's clear that we live in no First Amendment rose garden. Wood sacrificed her faculty position and career because of her interest in 9/11. She has been smeared and calumniated ever since. A student of hers was murdered.

And knowledgeable scientists everywhere, afraid to speak out, are lying low and keeping mum. Can they be blamed?

Consider that almost the entire scientific establishment, academic and non-academic, depends on support either from government or corporate interests for its continued existence. (Read Francis A. Boyle's “Biowarfare and Terrorism.”)

By no means does reluctance to speak out mean that all science is honest. Wood herself filed a federal case for science fraud against contractors working for The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on its congressionally mandated study of the causes of the World Trade Center towers' disappearance. In dismissing the case, the Court of Appeals ignored the law, then even acknowledged doing so.

The Supreme Court quashed the suit with nary a word written or said.

In a climate as fearsome as this, what any scientist thinks and is willing to say publicly are almost certain to be two different things. Finding a scientist to speak objectively about Dr. Wood's book is like finding a starving person to speak objectively about food. Can't be done.

So, with the science establishment muzzled, it's up to us “others” to speak the truth. And that's why I reviewed Dr. Wood's book, “the most important book of the 21st century.” I had a responsibility. And I met it, I'm happy to say.

Eric Larsen of New York City is an author and the founding publisher/editor of The Oliver Arts & Open Press. He was professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/The City University of New York from 1971-2006 after earning his masters and doctorate degrees at the University of Iowa. Comments:

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