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The maker of the video uses the same tactics of creationists. They misrepresent their opposition. They also use the fact that science is a process, and science doesn't instantly arrive at final conclusions before all possible theories have been worked through. So truthers use this process to claim that scientists don't know what their talking about.
As you should have noted, this video was blowing a lot of smoke. It made contradictory claims. It spent a lot of time with the far-fetched idea that the towers were taken down by thermite. And it also claimed that explosives were used. So it seems that these truthers don't know what they are talking about.
No sounds consistent with explosives used in demolitions were heard. So that can be eliminated as a possibility. No genuine evidence of thermite was ever found, so that can also be eliminated. And a demolition team would not be able to set up the explosives or thermite without being caught - it's impossible. Plus the buildings' damage and fires would have ruined the demolition team's effort.
All three buildings (WTC7, WTC1, and WTC2) suffered heavy damage and large fires. WTC1 and WTC2 collapsed from around the locations were the aircraft struck the buildings, and where the fires were naturally the heaviest. This is where the trusses warped downward, pulling the columns inward.
This video shows good pictures and videos of the towers' warping columns before they collapsed, giving good evidence that the NIST scientists are correct: