strange saga of jeffrey farrer

The Strange Saga of Jeffrey Farrer

Those of you who have been following this blog for a while have

probably noticed that I have a hobby of following the Full Members of

ST911 (yes, I know, I should collect stamps or something). Originally

in May, I brought up the issue that Jeffrey Farrer was listed as a

Full Member, even though he was a lab manager, and not a professor.

Then in August, after Judy Wood complained to Jim Fetzer, he was

demoted to a Student Member. A week or two later, after Judy Wood left

he was then promoted to Jeffrey Farrer PhD, a Full Member.

Now only a few weeks later he has quit the organization entirely.

Farrer, who manages BYU's Transmission Electron Microscopy

Laboratory, sent an e-mail asking the group to remove his name from

the Web site on Sept. 7, hours before BYU administrators informed

Jones they were placing him on paid leave. Farrer had grown

increasingly uncomfortable with the content of

scholarsfor911truth.org. He was disturbed that it appeared to have

a political viewpoint, though he said he would continue to work

with the group.

"If it's a scholarly Web site, I don't think they should have a

political viewpoint," Farrer said. "I thought there was too much

finger-pointing and maybe a little too much speculation that wasn't

based on confirmable evidence."

Geez, these guys have more turnover than the night shift at Burger