SpaceGazelle wrote:No it's fine, but there is a line in the sand between evidential proof and bunkum. Extraordinary claims and all that. My point is that pseudo science is now becoming accepted and normal and this is alarming. There's homeopathy on the NHS ffs. It's not a far leap to start claiming Mexicans are evil (with proof) when all the leaps are ridiculous.acemuzzy wrote:So there is at least a teeny but of uncertainty over what it is. Right? Some people like to speculate. Some people see evidence you might disagree with. Let them at it, sez I.
dynamiteReady wrote:Not sure if I've mentioned it before, but I'm often surprised by the number of people who dispute the moon landings.
This one guy I met at work was adamant, and often pointed to details such as the lie of the flag in the vids (why was the flag fluttering?), and other such shit.
The thing that played out in my mind, was that if I stuck to the common conviction, Gazelle's, which discounts the credibility of eyewitness statements, then arguing that the landings took place becomes a mire.
I am actually exercising a degree of faith in an eyewitness statement (though the supporting evidence, like the tech used to get there, the training regimens, prior history, upholds my belief that the even took place).
davyK wrote:The 2 questions I have for deniers. Why was a fake moon landing executed? Who benefited from it?
Kow wrote:The Russians have their own conspiracy theories about the West undermining them.
https://www.google.es/amp/s/www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dulles-plan-conspiracy-theory-russian-election-trolls.amp
SpaceGazelle wrote:It's mainly a Western thing thankfully, and the East are quietly and assuredly educating their populace in the scientific method.
dynamiteReady wrote:SpaceGazelle wrote:It's mainly a Western thing thankfully, and the East are quietly and assuredly educating their populace in the scientific method.
May need a little more detail to back up that statement.
From what I've read, the opposite, to a degree, is true, and that makes sense...
You can't have a surveillance state of the likes that China is purported to have, if a large proportion of a 1billion+ populous is educated to the level you've just suggested.
Diluted Dante wrote:Maybe it's just UCLAN, but every Chinese student I knew was doing English for International Business.
dynamiteReady wrote:You can't have a surveillance state of the likes that China is purported to have, if a large proportion of a 1billion+ populous is educated to the level you've just suggested.
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