Jim Hoffman is a conspiracy theorist from

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, who created several web sites about the

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that analyze and suggest alternative accounts for the events of that day. His primary website, 9-11 Research, serves as an archive of documentation and alternative analyses about the attacks. Hoffman has also written numerous technical essays which focus on the World Trade Center controlled demolition hypothesis. In 2006, the Editor of ''

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'', James B. Meigs, described Hoffman as a "leading conspiracy theorist."

Background

Hoffman co-published a paper on "

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tools for the study of minimal surfaces".

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

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, Vermont, seeking asylum from the CIA. Hoffman created the website www.justiceforwoody.org, which is now defunct and its contents moved t
justiceforwoody.wtc7.net

September 11, 2001 attacks

Since early 2003,
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, and he is critical of the official explanation of that collapse. Hoffman has also written a critique of the official

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) report on the building collapses, a critique of the 2006 NIST FAQ, and critiques9-11 Research - Popular Mechanics Attacks Its "9/11 LIES" Straw Man
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References

Publications

* * * *Hoffman, Jim and Paul, Don. ''"Waking up from our Nightmare: The 9/11 Crimes in New York City"''

External links

official website
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