Skeptoid #54: The Twin Towers: Fire Melting Steel

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Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2007

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The Oakland freeway collapse was not a government ploy to prove that the Twin Towers collapsed from fire.

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0:00.0	One of the principal arguments made by 9-11 Truthers is that jet fuel doesn't burn hot
0:09.4	enough to melt steel.
0:11.6	So there's no way that the plane crashes could have brought down the twin towers.
0:16.1	Today we're going to examine this claim with some solid evidence, and it came not from
0:20.9	a building, but from a freeway overpass thousands of kilometers away.
0:27.1	Their melting steel is coming up now on Skeptoid.
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1:24.2	The Twin Towers Fire Melting Steel
1:28.9	Today we're going to really put the men in black under the microscope, and by men in black
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