This website attempts to provide sufficient information to encourage a campus wide discussion at Northwestern University as to whether Professor Zdenek Bazant's published work on the fall of the WTC towers on 9/11/01 should be a cause for university wide concern.
As all educated people realize, 9/11 historically will be understood as the primary cause for US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the beginning of the "war on terror" with its resulting added security measures, considered by many to be a threat to civil liberties. It also led to an atmosphere of suppression of civil dialog for issues surrounding 9/11. It seems every major institution in the US has resisted asking hard questions about this central political event of our time.
Many people, when they see a discussion of 9/11, have chosen to apply the term "conspiracy theory"in a pejorative usage as if no governing body or other powerful group could ever reasonably be accused of abusing their power.
If a society is to remain free, it must be able to have civil dialog about all issues of importance. In the case of 9/11, we should welcome the opportunity to discuss actual evidence, including scientific evidence, rather than resorting to ad hominem attacks in either direction.
Any accusation, conspiracy or not, deserves an investigation into relevant evidence.
We hope the fact that the university has such a policy is indicative of the issue being taken seriously.
Zdenek Bazant's Role
Zdenek Pavel Bazant in 2015
Photo: Royal Society CCbySA 4.0
