
A New Standard of Deception
Kevin Ryan, a former manager at Underwriters Laboratories, argues that the National Institute of Standards and Technology's report on the World Trade Center collapses does not hold up to scientific scrutiny. Speaking for roughly an hour, Ryan walks through NIST's investigation of the Twin Towers and Building 7, focusing on what he says is the agency's failure to experimentally verify the floor pancake theory of collapse, which he claims forced investigators to substitute a different explanation without acknowledging the switch. He draws a line from the WTC investigations to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing inquiry, pointing to overlapping personnel across the two efforts as evidence of a pattern. Ryan frames his own history as part of the story: promoted to head UL's water testing division, he was dismissed in November 2004 after an email he sent questioning the collapse to NIST metallurgist Frank Gayle became public. The presentation is Ryan's own case against the official record, delivered as a point-by-point critique rather than a balanced review of competing explanations.