You got stuck on guilt by association.
I am not asking you to believe dozens of conspiracy theories of various types.
I am asking you to do some serious homework on the logistics of the Apollo missions.
Keep it simple.
Keep it doable.
You can do this.
I am asking you to do some serious homework on the logistics of the Apollo missions.
I mentioned other examples because the same broken thought process almost always causes those who believe the “fake moon landing” theory to believe the others as well. The problem with rebutting false conspiracy theories (with the caveat that, as I said, some theories are true) is that the false theories are based upon such flawed and impenetrable reasoning. If you dispute the claims, then YOU are just part of the conspiracy and are of course lying (or you’ve just been brainwashed by those behind the conspiracy). So there is never any rational debate because the conspiracy theorists have hermetically sealed their beliefs in an airtight container.
The persistence of this nonsense is now causing a whole new generation of young people to adopt these and even more absurd theories, falsely believing that they have been let in on the “real truth.” There are tons of YouTube videos, most by young college-aged kids, spouting foolish stuff like “the Earth is flat” (I wish I was making that one up), “9/11 was an inside job”, or possibly the stupidest and most pointless one I’ve yet seen, “Airliners don’t really burn jet fuel, that’s just a lie.” These kids, having no history with these old theories, think they just invented them, and talking about them gives them a sense of being smarter than everyone else, of being an “insider” who is privy to “hidden truth.”
It’s bad enough that they’re constantly indoctrinated with leftist woke BS, but adding to that problem by filling their heads with false conspiracy nonsense is just greasing the rails on the descent into a new dark age.
And when I talk about how impenetrable these beliefs are, there is no better example than the completely absurd “chemtrail” nonsense. As a pilot and aviation professional, I KNOW FOR SURE that what certain people constantly describe as “spraying” is just good old water vapor from contrails. But no matter how obvious the actual truth, the believers in this theory will not listen to anyone except a tiny group of self-proclaimed “experts” who tell them what they want to hear. It’s a template for the same behavior in reaction to rebuttals to other false theories.