Christopher Moore is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Virginia Commonwealth University. He lives in North Myrtle Beach, SC with his wife and two children.
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.