Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

…the time frame we’re talking about here, is all within the industrial revolution. The buildings he’s questioning were all built in the late 1800s or the early 1900s. The construction technology in use up to and through the Great Depression would apply to every single structure he discusses. Any of us born during the baby boom could have easily had conversations with people who saw this happen in real time or knew and conversed with others who saw the local physical environment as it was being constructed.

Actual photographs exist of the construction process. I’ve seen written descriptions of how many train loads of material it took for specific buildings. We know where the quarries were for the stone. We know where the steel for the frames came from. We know when and how the railroads were built.

We know that this was before labor unions and labor laws. The workers would have worked sunup to sundown 6 or 7 days a week.

Fancy details would have been produced in shops and factories 100s or 1000s of miles away and shipped in by rail.

The towns were laid out on a grid and the rails, without a doubt, ran right down the middle of the streets as the towns were being built. The material came to within a few feet of the construction site and the buildings went up like an erector set.

None of this should be controversial.

My questions are: Why are these people creating this bullshit? Are they really this stupid? What benefit do they get from this?