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The Tenacious, Idiotic It is the nature of the conspiracy theory
to doubt reason and favour feeling. A hunch can
Appeal Of Moon Landing be seductive; a hunch was all it took for Kaysing

to disregard the transmissions beamed into what
Conspiracy Theories
he calls his “boob tube,” and to pursue on the
strength of his inexplicable conviction the proof
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certain truth.
Always the same nefarious machinations of the Casting doubt on photographs of the
powers that be, whatever explanation the moon because they seem to you to contain errors
theorist chooses specifically to believe. The or contradictions is a handy way to feel superior
to the benighted masses who accept whatever
point, ultimately, seems to be to pull the wool
over the eyes of an impressionable populace. It happens to be presented to them by the
is the theorist alone who sees the secret truth — representatives of the status quo. And it’s less
and can tell the rest of us “sheeple” to wake up work for the layman to doubt by sight or
to it. intuition than to actually investigate these claims
Like most conspiracies of this scale, a or learn anything concrete about the facts.
non-factual counter-argument can be made that How space travel works is complicated.
it is difficult to imagine so many people It is literally rocket science.[]
preserving the fiction: thousands worked on the
Apollo missions; hundreds were responsible for
the launch and the landing and were
eyewitnesses to its success; most especially,
three men were actually in space, two of them on
the surface of the moon. So incredible would the
feat of faking the moon landing and keeping the
reality of the hoax a secret for half a century, that
it barely seems worth the effort. It would have
been easier to just land on the moon.
Well, conspiracy theorists have an
explanation for the breadth of the subterfuge,
too. They point to the many other historical
instances of government deception — the fact
that we know of them because they were at some
point exposed or confessed does not seem to
trouble them.