Creative Speculation

while the building itself displays no such behavior, suggesting that contrary to NIST's theory, the floors were still mostly intact.

Another problem is that NIST refuses to release the calculations they used to estimate the thermal expansion that allegedly pushed the girder off its seat.

Another is that they omitted the shear studs from the girder, because shear studs would have kept it on its seat.

Another is that in their models they considered a connection that had 3 of its 4 elements broken to be completely broken.

Yet another is that they removed from their final report every instance in the draft report when they claimed that their analysis was "consistent with physical principles".

Another is that they do not provide the detail justifying their claim that there was a period of invisible buckling of the exterior columns reflected in a change in color of one pixel along the roofline.

Another is that their models of the progress of the fires are not consistent with the photographic evidence of the fires.

Another is that they made the girder seat too small in their calculations, and omitted stiffener plates at the end of the girder.

They seem to have put their thumbs on the scale many times in order to generate the desired results.