![]() ![]() Martin Kenny claimed: “In the past, you saw the moon landings and there was no way to check any of it. Last year, the daytime TV show This Morning welcomed a guest who argued that no one could have walked on the moon as the moon is made of light. ![]() Photograph: It turns out British people love conspiracy theories, too. Every time something big happens, somebody has a counter-explanation.”īill Kaysing, the man who started the moon-hoax conspiracy. “And the truth is, Americans love conspiracy theories. “The reality is, the internet has made it possible for people to say whatever the hell they like to a broader number of people than ever before,” sighs Roger Launius, a former chief historian of Nasa. While Kaysing relied on photocopied samizdat to alert the world, now conspiracists have the subreddit r/moonhoax to document how Nasa was “so lazy” it used the same moon rover for Apollo 15, 16 and 17 or how “they have been trolling us for years” or to bring up the fact there is “one thing I can’t get my head around. A sociology professor in New Jersey was exposed last year for telling his students the landings were fake. The podcast kingpin Joe Rogan is among the doubters. Among 9/11 truthers, anti-vaxxers, chemtrailers, flat-Earthers, Holocaust deniers and Sandy Hook conspiracists, the idea that the moon landings were faked isn’t even a source of anger any more – it is just a given fact. Despite the extraordinary volume of evidence (including 382kg of moon rock collected across six missions corroboration from Russia, Japan and China and images from the Nasa Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showing the tracks made by the astronauts in the moondust), belief in the moon-hoax conspiracy has blossomed since 1969. ![]()
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