It’s not a mod head, it’s a rational head.
We’re relying on eye witness accounts which are only reliable if corroborated. Someone may well have been thrown 30 feet; equally, they may well be exaggerating, or have entirely made it up. Maybe they were thrown 60 feet? Who knows.
“We all know the real threat that’s out there” is blatant scaremongering. There’s a million possible causes for an explosion, not all of them are down to brown people with beards and rucksacks. It’s entirely possible that it was a terrorist attack; equally, it could’ve been a faulty boiler.