For fuck sake, CNN, don’t just google “Apollo moon landing hoax” and return 1.5 billion hits and try to insinuate that the controversy is alive and well based on that – what percentage of those hits is from people out there saying “People who believe in the ‘apollo moon landing hoax’ theory are fucking nutters” or similar?
Sibrel may seem crazy, but he has company. A 1999 Gallup poll found that a scant 6 percent of Americans doubted the Apollo 11 moon landing happened, and there is anecdotal evidence that the ranks of such conspiracy theorists, fueled by innuendo-filled documentaries and the Internet, are growing.
Twenty-five percent of respondents to a survey in the British magazine Engineering & Technology said they do not believe humans landed on the moon. A handful of Web sites and blogs circulate suspicions about NASA’s “hoax.”
And a Google search this week for “Apollo moon landing hoax” yielded more than 1.5 billion results.
President Bush left office with a higher approval rating than people who believe the moon landing was faked, according to the same Gallup polling – what does THAT say? I keep trying to find a Gallup Poll to see if any percentage of Americans truly believe in a flat earth, or hollow earth – I know some nutters claim to, but how many? Statistically comparable to the amount who believe in the moon landing hoax theory?
Well, I just became the 1,500,000,001st page to return a hit for the term “apollo moon landing hoax” so I guess CNN will chalk that up to another believer.
Honestly, if the moon landing was fakable, you’d think someone would put their money where their mouth is and PROVE IT BY FAKING ANOTHER ONE.
Seriously, if we could fake it, then China and Russia would have “landed on the moon too.”
Argument over. And seriously CNN, an argument over astrophysical matters without consulting Phil Plait? Epic fucking fail. Oh wait, there he is, once sentence at the end. No mention of his scene-by-scene refutation of the Fox film.
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