Jim Hoffman

Jim Hoffman is a conspiracy theorist from Oakland, California, who created several web sites about the September 11, 2001 attacks that analyze and suggest alternative accounts for the events of that day. His primary website, 9-11 Research,[http://911research.wtc7.net 9-11 Research: An Attempt to Uncover the Truth About September 11th, 2001]. Retrieved May 10, 2014. serves as an archive of documentation and alternative analyses about the attacks.{{cite news|first = Farhad|last = Manjoo|url = http://www.salon.com/2006/06/27/911_conspiracies/|title = The 9/11 deniers|work = Feature|publisher = Salon.com, Inc.|date = 2006-06-27|access-date = 2006-08-21}} Hoffman has also written numerous technical essays{{cite web |url=http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/index.html |title=Essays On Aluminothermics Use at the WTC |access-date=2009-04-11 |last=Hoffman |first=Jim H|work=wtc7.net}} which focus on the World Trade Center controlled demolition hypothesis.

In 2006, the Editor of Popular Mechanics, James B. Meigs, described Hoffman as a "leading conspiracy theorist."{{cite web|first = James B.|last = Meigs|year = 2006 |url = http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a921/4199607/|title = The Conspiracy Industry |work = Popular Mechanics |publisher = Hearst Communications, Inc. |access-date = 2006-10-16}}

Background

Hoffman co-published a paper on "Computer graphics tools for the study of minimal surfaces".[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=62959.62961&coll=GUIDE&dl=&idx=J79&part=periodical&WantType=periodical&title=Communications%20of%20the%20ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618 Computer graphics tools for the study of minimal surfaces], acm.org

Causes

=Justice For Woody=

Hoffman was part of a citizens group that protested the killing by police of Robert "Woody" Woodward, in December 2001, after Woodward entered a church in Brattleboro, Vermont, seeking asylum from the CIA.{{cite news |last1=Libow |first1=Gary |title=Police Criticized in Woodward Willing |url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2002-09-25-0209252057-story.html |access-date=22 November 2019 |publisher=Hartford Courant |date=September 25, 2002}} Hoffman created a website detailing the incident.

=September 11, 2001 attacks=

Since early 2003,[http://911research.wtc7.net/about/index.html 9-11 Research - About Jim Hoffman] Hoffman has been writing about the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) and other aspects of the September 11, 2001 attacks.[http://911review.com/reason.html 9-11 Research - The 9/11/01 Attack: Means, Motive, and Precedent] His work has examined the collapse of the smaller 7 World Trade Center, and he is critical of the official explanation of that collapse. Hoffman has also written a critique of the official National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report on the building collapses,[http://www.911research.wtc7.net/essays/nist/index.html 9-11 Research - Building a Better Mirage: NIST's 3-Year $20,000,000 Cover-Up of the Crime of the Century] a critique of the 2006 NIST FAQ,[http://www.911research.wtc7.net/reviews/nist/WTC_FAQ_reply.html A Reply to the National Institute for Standards and Technology's 'Answers to Frequently Asked Questions'] and critiques[http://www.911research.wtc7.net/essays/sciam/index.html 9-11 Research - Scientific American's Dishonest Attack On 911Research][http://www.911research.wtc7.net/essays/pm/index.html 9-11 Research - Popular Mechanics Attacks Its "9/11 LIES" Straw Man] of articles about the 9/11 conspiracy theories by the popular-science magazines Scientific American and Popular Mechanics.

References

Publications

{{cite journal | author=Callahan, M. J., Hoffman, D. & Hoffman, J. T. | title=Computer graphics tools for the study of minimal surfaces | journal=Communications of the ACM Archive | year=1988 | volume=31 | pages=648–661 | doi=10.1145/62959.62961 | issue=6| s2cid=1852626 | doi-access=free }}
{{cite journal | author=Anderson, D. M., Bellare, J., Hoffman, J. T., Hoffman, D., Gunther, J. & Thomas, E. L. | title=Algorithms for the simulation of two-dimensional projections from structures determined by dividing surfaces | journal=Journal of Colloid and Interface Science | year=1992 | volume=148 | pages=398–414 | doi=10.1016/0021-9797(92)90179-P | issue=2}}
{{cite journal| author=Hoffman| title=Triply Periodic Bicontinuous Cubic Microdomain Morphologies by Symmetries| journal=Macromolecules| date=October 2001| volume=34| issue=17| pages=6083–6089| url=http://0-pubs.acs.org.lib1.npttc.edu.tw/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/mamobx/2001/34/i17/abs/ma0019499.html| format=abstract| doi=10.1021/ma0019499| bibcode=2001MaMol..34.6083W| display-authors=etal}}{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Hoffman, Jim and Paul, Don. "Waking up from our Nightmare: The 9/11 Crimes in New York City" {{ISBN|0-943096-10-3}}