Strap on your bike helmet, because we're diving into one of the most enduring, emotionally charged, and controversial events in modern history: the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001specifically, WTC 7. If you've ever fallen into a rabbit hole of YouTube documentaries or late-night forum threads on 9/11, you've probably come across more than a few eyebrow-raising theories. Today, we're taking a walk through those conspiracy theories, keeping an open mind but also doing what conspiracy theorists often say we should do: follow the evidence. And to help guide our journey, we’re going to lean on the 2008 Final Report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology―or NIST―on the collapse of WTC 7. This report is the closest thing we have to an official autopsy of the building that wasn’t even hit by a plane but s ...