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Have you ever tried to get thousands of people to cooperate on anything, let alone perpetuate a massive lie, when they have nothing to gain personally from doing so?
While we laugh at skeptics, often they serve a valuable purpose. Skeptics have often revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Like Galileo. We should be careful of unquestioningly believing "established" facts.
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As I said, I’m not defending the moon landing doubters. But it seems obvious to me that the recent increase in conspiracy theories is a direct result of unethical institutional and government actions coming to light.
Like flat earth and anti-vax? To me, it seems more obvious that that's the effect of attention and manipulation in media, both "classic" and social. A suspicious attitude institutions has always existed: from the government down to the grocer, who pushes the scales down while weighing. The more the attention is drawn towards it, the greater the suspicion gets, and I feel that especially divisive attention feeds suspi…
I attribute the rise of conspiracy theories to an overabundance of information; doing the research on each individual topic is just overwhelming to the average person and subsequently a simplistic conspiracy theory has appeal.
Armstrong's reference to the moon reflectors brought back memories of this classic Big Bang clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e5CtbbZL-k&feature=youtu.be In this context I can easily imagine that Zack is the teacher.
not sure why I feel the urge to reply :) but Zack is the very opposite of that teacher. Zack is asking questions and wants to learn. That teacher just tries to push her opinion on someone, leaving to room for reply, no room for a conversation, exactly what no teacher should do, no one in general but especially someone who should promote discussions, questioning and argumentation
As Armstrong points out in his reply, it only takes a very basic level of scientific/forensic examination to easily prove the moon landings happened.
But all of that falls on deaf ears (much like in the clip) when you are responding to someone with a Zack level of scientific ability.
What gets me most about these fools is they completely ignore how much such a huge fake job would cost. It would be so expensive that you could cut the budget in half and just...go to the moon.
>It would be so expensive that you could cut the budget in half and just...go to the moon.
Not even close.
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It’s a single example. The list of governmental frauds is as long as recorded history.
Again, you are conflating frauds and have't actually refuted the point in question: did we land on the moon or not?
While we laugh at skeptics, often they serve a valuable purpose. Skeptics have often revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Like Galileo. We should be careful of unquestioningly believing "established" facts.
"As a teacher of young children, I have a duty to tell them history..."
- Moon landing was fake.
- You believe in the Moon?!
While we laugh at skeptics, often they serve a valuable purpose. Skeptics have often revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Like Galileo. We should be careful of unquestioningly believing "established" facts.
Do you really think lunar landing conspiracy theorists are going to "revolutionize our understanding of the universe"? There is room for subtly in these arguments, it is not an all or nothing proposition of listen to everyone, or listen to no one.
No. But just be aware that ideas people laughed at as clearly wrong and absurd have sometimes turned out to be the truth. Some examples:
1. heliocentric solar system
2. evolution
3. Titanic breaking in half on the surface
4. quantum mechanics
5. all men are created equal