# James Mosqueda, freeway destroyer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-mosqueda-freeway-destroyer/402101>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 29, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-mosqueda-freeway-destroyer/402101 "2007-04-29T23:52:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-mosqueda-freeway-destroyer/402101/81 "2007-05-17T20:10:18Z")

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[QUOTE=Voyager]  
Peer reviewed? Who was his peer, Bozo the Clown?  
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Close. Jones and the other ‘Scholars’ made the [Journal For 911 Studies](http://www.journalof911studies.com/). Which is little more than a rag where the physics is ‘peer reviewed’ by psychologists, theologists, and other completely unqualified people. This little trickery is so that Jones can say his work is ‘peer reivewed’.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-mosqueda-freeway-destroyer/402101/82 "2007-05-17T20:19:53Z")

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[QUOTE=Mr. Miskatonic]  
Close. Jones and the other ‘Scholars’ made the [Journal For 911 Studies](http://www.journalof911studies.com/). Which is little more than a rag where the physics is ‘peer reviewed’ by psychologists, theologists, and other completely unqualified people.  
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Also one of his students, whose qualifications the doctor greatly exaggerated.

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-mosqueda-freeway-destroyer/402101/83 "2007-05-17T22:29:01Z")

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[QUOTE=E-Sabbath]  
When you make a gamble like buying the steel before you have the bid, you _damn_ well better underbid severely and be _damn_ sure to make it up on time.  
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Ehh, if he’d lost the bid, it wouldn’t have hurt him all that much. They have a sort of side-line selling or renting steel beams for use in construction and falsework bracing. It probably would have been the biggest beam in the yard, but it wouldn’t go to waste.

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**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-mosqueda-freeway-destroyer/402101/84 "2007-05-18T00:20:25Z")

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True, but these guys are penny wise. (And pound foolish, no lie) When you make an expense like that, you’re putting your metaphorical balls out and daring people to kick 'em.

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