PETER MICHAEL KETCHAM, an employee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for 14 years, has publicly criticized the government agency for ignoring the scientific errors found in its report on the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7) after the September 11, 2001 attacks. He spoke on the issue earlier this month.

Ketcham studied the collapse of the building after his departure from the agency. “I quickly became furious,” he says. “First I was furious with myself. How could I have worked at NIST all those years and not have noticed this before? Second, I was furious at NIST. The NIST I knew was intellectually open …  and enthusiastic about exposing the details of its research. The more I investigated, the more I concluded that NIST had reached a pre-determined conclusion.”

He calls NIST one of the “crown jewels” of the federal government, making its lapses hard to understand.

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