I’ve gotten into tangles with the 9/11 Troofers on this site before. But I’m always amazed at what people will believe. The moon landing was faked! Come on … really?

Apparently, the story is big enough that Newsweek decided to run a story this week.

Despite the amount of evidence increasingly available online, a sizeable number of Americans still scream “hoax” when they hear about men on the moon. Polling by Gallup and other agencies continually shows that 6 percent of Americans think we’ve never made it to the lunar surface, with another 5 percent uncertain of their opinion. These numbers have been steady since 2001, when the Fox television network aired a straight-faced program called Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?

Six percent!? At least it isn’t as bad as the level of idiocy surrounding the collapse of the Twin Towers.

As a libertarian, I have a pretty healthy distrust of everything the government does. But the evidence in both cases is so overwhelming that … well, nevermind. Who am I going to convince when the damned History Channel keeps running shows about Alien influence in society that end up being 2 hour infomercials for stupidity, with maybe 5 minutes of actual expert interviews.

Thankfully we have clavius.

3 Responses to “Moon landing hoax: People believe the dumbest things”

  1. on 04 Dec 2011 at 4:04 amhari

    CHRIS ::: There were several allegations about the moon landing done by the americans ! yes ! indeed the doubts were
    1. what made the flag fly on an airless atmosphere ?
    2.moon soil i so dry ! how can there be footmarks made on it ??
    3.there were more than one shadow in some pics of the austronauts .but th eonly source is sun ! how cud there be more than one shadow???

    hope these questions can be answered ~~

  2. on 07 Dec 2011 at 9:41 amChristopher Moore

    I suggest watching the MythBusters episode on the “Moon Landing Hoax.” They actually did a pretty decent job no this one.

    http://mythbustersresults.com/nasa-moon-landing

  3. on 27 Jan 2012 at 9:12 amMe

    Mythbusters? Hahaha okay! We have never been to the moon, we can’t with our technology today, imagine 1960′s technology,

    But you keep believing what Mythbusters have to say…

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