Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "A Brief History of Moon Hoaxes - Why do people still believe in them?" video.

  1. The moon-landing deniers never explain how the Russians were made to go along with the “hoax”. Remember there was this whole big “Cold War” thing going on at the time? Cuban missile crisis, people being shot trying to cross the Berlin Wall, all that kind of thing?
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  2. Here: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-greatest-newspaper-correction-ever-written-49-year-1491590487 -- the editorial was from 1920, basically saying Robert Goddard was an idiot. The retraction was published 49 years later -- the day after Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.
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  3. A bit earlier than that, they published an (in)famous editorial arguing that rockets would never work in space, because there was “nothing to push against”. They didn’t retract it until much later.
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  4. 10:19 This ! Their tendency to believe in multiple conspiracies is their weak spot. Simply point out the logical contradictions between the conspiracies, and watch them fumble about and try to rationalize all these. 8:48 Pushing lots of proofs and evidence in their faces is certainly not the way. But science isn’t about that anyway: it’s about asking the questions that led to the uncovering of those proofs and evidence. So ask them a few probing questions about these “conspiracies”, to make them think a bit more critically about them. Bringing up contradictions between their different beliefs is particularly helpful (see above).
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