I was attending a family event recently when the conversation turned to the conspiracy by a certain aunt and her daughters to keep a certain family recipe (amazingly delicious and, so far, impossible to duplicate) out of the hands of her daughters in law!
Apropos of that, my niece revealed that her fiancé subscribes to various moon landing conspiracies! He's a really nice guy so we didn't give him the business about it, but I thought, "Here's an event that happened recently, that involved tens of thousands of people, that has millions of pages of documentation, lunar samples, vehicles left behind on the moon... As much evidence as you could possibly have... And he still doesn't believe it. Why?"
Every moon landing conspiracy theory has been refuted with science, yet the theories persist. The bottom line is that some people are unable to apply reason if it is at odds with their deeply held beliefs. They say they have alternate science that supports the conspiracy, but they don't. You can refute their 'science' (which is replete with all sorts of errors that amateurs would make) all you want, but they won't budge. What they feel is so real to them that the science is irrelevant.
So I was googling the topic yesterday and found another refutation that I'd never come across before. Very entertaining!
http://ift.tt/1dsiUqY
Apropos of that, my niece revealed that her fiancé subscribes to various moon landing conspiracies! He's a really nice guy so we didn't give him the business about it, but I thought, "Here's an event that happened recently, that involved tens of thousands of people, that has millions of pages of documentation, lunar samples, vehicles left behind on the moon... As much evidence as you could possibly have... And he still doesn't believe it. Why?"
Every moon landing conspiracy theory has been refuted with science, yet the theories persist. The bottom line is that some people are unable to apply reason if it is at odds with their deeply held beliefs. They say they have alternate science that supports the conspiracy, but they don't. You can refute their 'science' (which is replete with all sorts of errors that amateurs would make) all you want, but they won't budge. What they feel is so real to them that the science is irrelevant.
So I was googling the topic yesterday and found another refutation that I'd never come across before. Very entertaining!
http://ift.tt/1dsiUqY
Put the internet to work for you.
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