Review of Jeff Bauman (legless man) Boston Bombing Conspiracy Theory (GRAPHIC IMAGES)Update: I have since addressed Dave Mc. Gowan’s response to this post HEREWARNING: This Page Contains Graphic Images of Gore! In the immediate aftermath of the Boston Bombings when the mainstream media and alternative media alike were speculating about the causes, despite even the most basic of evidence yet to be collated and confirmed – I wrote an article entitled The Man With The Missing Legs: A Rational Analysis of a Boston Bomb Victim, debunking a disgusting Facebook meme insinuating the “legless man” famously photographed in a wheelchair, was really Nick Vogt – a legless Afghan war veteran who was acting out his injuries as part of a conspiracy. Though I stand by the original article – not least because they look nothing alike – several readers have pointed me to other theories surrounding the legless man (whom has been named as Jeff Bauman) and I wanted to take the time to fully explore them. The most in- depth conspiratorial piece on Bauman that I’ve seen (though some remain convinced the man photographed isn’t Bauman, I use the name as an easily recognizable reference), is by author Dave Mc. Gowan who wrote a vast 1. As I write this sentence I have yet to engage with the series beyond a quick scan, thus I’ve titled this article a “review” instead of a “debunking” because I am always open- minded enough to change my mind should I come across evidence and a convincing hypothesis for a conspiracy.

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For those that chance upon this page directly from elsewhere, a quick look at the other content of this site should prove to you that I am not a “debunker” by profession or hobby, and would be very much lumped in with the “conspiracy theorist” or “truther” crowd, though I reject those terms myself. While I have “debunked” several theories on a number of topics in my time, this is part of the process of discovering truth and is not born out of an ulterior motive. If we didn’t critique each other, any and all theories would be deemed the truth, and that would make for a very messy reality.

In the process of this review I will quote claims, theories and opinions chronologically from Mc. Gowan’s series as they pertain to Bauman and offer my analysis below. If I get the time in the future, I may review the whole 1. Bauman. So lets get on with it…Special Report on the Boston Marathon: The Curious Case of the Man Who Could Only Sit Down (Part 1)The Boston Marathon bombing incident produced an exceedingly bloody, gore- filled scene. We know that because virtually all avenues of the mainstream media, as was obvious from the very first reports, wanted us to know that. Never before can I recall seeing so many blood- soaked images being so prominently displayed.

Newspapers and network and cable news broadcasts seemed to be on a mission to bring you the bloodiest, most graphic images they could come up with. From the outset Mc. Gowan is seeding doubt about the motives of the mainstream media. I don’t necessarily disagree with his analysis, though one also shouldn’t be surprised that in an age of camera- phones etc that there was a lot of gory imagery and the media would jump on this to shock profits and patriotic reactions out of people. It should be noted however that going against this theory is the fact that some media outlets edited out and censored the gore.

The New York Daily News for example photoshopped out a woman’s injured leg“out of sensitivity to the victims, the families and the survivors.”Mc. Gowan goes on to say that it’s “a fact” that Jeff Bauman appears to be a faker, whatever that’s supposed to mean. Facts don’t appear, they’re facts.“But the fact remains that the most high- profile of the victims, who also happened to be by far the most gruesomely injured of the victims, and the guy who purportedly provided the tip that allowed authorities to identify the alleged perpetrators, appears to have been a fake.”To begin with, the guy’s name is supposedly Jeff Bauman. The posted photos of Bauman, however, do not really resemble the wheelchair guy. I completely disagree with this statement. Whereas veteran Nick Vogt looks nothing like the “legless man”, the widely circulated photos of Bauman before and after the bombings are uncanny. The reader can of course make up their own mind, but to me it’s a no- brainer, and Mc.

Gowan is being dishonest with himself. Here is a collection of photos I’ve put together. Note the matching long shape of the face and nose, the ears, eyebrows and facial hair.

To say the “during” photos don’t look like any of the others is to ignore the detail completely. In addition, the initial identification of Bauman came via an unverifiable Facebook post. In fact, virtually everything that has been reported about Bauman to this day seems to have come from unverified Facebook posts, though the info has been reported as fact. Those posts have largely been credited to Jeff Bauman, Sr., though no reporters, as best I can determine, have actually located and spoken to the senior Bauman. This next paragraph exemplifies what I like to call “willful ignorance”, something common with careless conspiracy theorists. It’s a process of assuming there is doubt about something, when you could just as easily and perhaps more rationally assume there isn’t doubt about something.

At its core is an ignorance that the theorist doesn’t even try to answer. Watch Burning Blue Online. They want to be ignorant, because it suits their agenda.

Mc. Gowan himself could go and track down Bauman and Bauman Sr, and the journalists who have written about them. But instead it’s easier to say the Facebook posts are “unverified”. By assuming the posts are fraudulent, he’s also assuming everybody who has written about Bauman hasn’t done their job.

It assumes that everybody around Bauman on the day of the bombings and afterwards are mistaken. It assumes that everybody who knows the legless man (whoever he might be if he’s not Bauman) are in on the conspiracy, because so far nobody has piped up to say “that’s not Jeff Bauman, that’s my neighbor Eric…an amateur actor”. How I Met Your Mother Episode 1 Season 1 more. Or “that is my neighbor Jeff Bauman but he’s always had missing limbs”.

It assumes the doctors who operated on him are either in on the conspiracy, operated on somebody else or that nobody operated on anybody, in which case those at Boston Medical Center would probably be scratching their heads at all the incorrect coverage. While some may say the burden of proof is on Bauman to prove that he really is Bauman, you’re assuming that he hasn’t already or that society is so stupid not to realize it isn’t him. It’s the same logic as if you said “I think President Obama is really a hologram created for TV, because I haven’t ever met him”. Well you could go and meet him at a Rally, or you could weigh up the probability of your theory against everybody else who has in some form interacted with him, whether it be journalists or other members of the public.

On the balance of probabilities, all things considered, it’s most likely Obama isn’t a hologram. Reports claim that Jeff, Jr. And Bauman himself, though healthy enough after just 1. Boston Bruins hockey match, has not been sought out by or interviewed by anyone in the media.

Jeff Bauman has since appeared on the Today Show. Watch The Man Without A Face Online. Let’s now review the available photo and video evidence to determine if there might be a possibility that some parts of the story might be untrue. Let’s begin with some live footage from the Boston Globe that depicts the explosions and their immediate aftermath. As can be seen, the explosions took place on the side of the street opposite the bleachers – the side of the street, that is, where there were far fewer spectators gathered. The explosions also took place behind some temporary fencing/scaffolding, requiring would- be rescuers to spend a full two- and- a- half minutes working to dismantle the fencing to get to victims.