How's this for a kick in the nuts.

[Omniscient]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34342,00.html

Not sure what it really matters, but it sure doesn’t sit well with me. Safety Nazi’s unite.

[Omniscient]

Fixed link

[Fugazi]

Yes indeed, a kick in the nuts.

[Palve]

I got kicked in the nuts in a library once, so I couldn’t make any loud noises. However, I think the strained yells of pain still broke people’s concentration. Needless to say, it hurt like hell.

Anyway, that asbestos thing sucks.

[Mudshark]

I’ve never been kickes in the nuts. I guess I’m lucky. I know I’m lucky.
I don’t see the bid deal about asbestos. My grandparents house has asbestos insulation and I haven’t grown any extra arms.

[GIGObuster]

One graphic explains the layout of the columns affected:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/13/graphics/13wldcollapse.gif

The more I think about it, the original crash severed many of the colums, if asbestos was used as a coating, I think it would have not done much of a difference. Asbestos does a good job with a regular fire, but this fire was fueled with hundreds of gallons of jet fuel and the impact and heat would have stripped most of the coating. Incidentally, many reports do mention that the steel colums did have fire protection.

There are reasons why I am a skeptic of the Junk science guy:
http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/tscience.htm

There’s a huge irony at work here, of course. It’s science, after all, that has effectively laid some of those controversies to rest (no authoritative study has found that EMFs from overhead power lines cause cancer, for example). But others, such as global warming, are still part of a serious ongoing debate. And so it should be. If there is one clear way in which science is abused, it is by reducing its deliberate, complex method of discovery to the kind of epigrams that you can display on a coffee mug. Yet, here is the self-proclaimed “Junkman” calling the ball dead on controversy after controversy.

And how scientific one can be if we do not have all the data yet?:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010912/us/trade_center_construction.html

We believe that any speculation regarding the specifics of these tragic events would be irresponsible,'' the statement said. For obvious reasons, MYA has no further comment at this time.’’

And from the original article:

We may now be paying a horrible price for junk science-fueled asbestos hysteria.

IMHO The word “may” is used here like an escape hatch, very cute for a reporter that claims to deal with science. I think his opinion in this case is junk science.