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The idea that the Apollo 11 moon landing was faked
According to Mike Hughes, who recently canceled his plans to launch himself 1,800 feet high in a homemade scrap metal rocket to prove the Earth is flat, “There’s no difference between science and science fiction.” It may shock you to find out Hughes’ suspicion the Earth is flat is not one unique to …
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If you feel like flat Earth theory has gotten unaccountably popular recently, you’re right. According to Google Trends, search interest in the flat Earth conspiracy theory has already had several distinct peaks in the last year. (“The last year” was 2017, not 1519, just to be clear.) It’s funny, …
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Here are some of the wildest perennial space myths that just won’t go die. Credit: NASA/Getty On the internet, you need to be a skeptical reader these days. Claims of aliens and UFOs, Mars being abnormally big, or the moon turning green are the kinds of things you should check out carefully. Here …
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A majority of Americans believe that the government is concealing information about the 9/11 attacks, one new survey suggests. And that’s not the only conspiracy theory believed by a wide swath of Americans: Around 40 percent believe the government is hiding information about aliens, the John F. …
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“HAVE YOU HEARD WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING?” This would be a really funny story if so many people didn’t take this stuff seriously. But they do. In fact, atmospheric scientists have gotten so many e-mails, tweets and Facebook posts that drastic measures had to be taken. Now there’s actually been …
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On December 2nd, while the awful news from San Bernardino was erupting, bit by unconfirmed bit, I was surprised by the crisp self-assurance of a couple of bloggers whose names were new to me. They were on it—number of victims, names of shooters, police-radio intercepts. Soon, though, the bloggers …
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There is an interesting story in Thursday’s Inquirer about a South Jersey billboard warning passersby about the dangers of chemtrails which, some of you already know, just happen to be a social-media fixation* of mine. I thank the wide swath of woke friends who brought it to my attention. “LOOK UP …
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Rapper B.o.B. has caused a furore by tweeting that the Earth is in fact flat, and you only need to look at the evidence to come to the same conclusion. Obviously, prominent scientists have openly mocked this claim, showing the many ways in which it is ludicrous, no matter how many people insist …
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There are a lot of conspiracy theories out there, but one of the oldest and most prominent is that the United States faked the moon landing. Neil deGrasse Tyson has another way to look at how to deal with the conspiracy theories.Produced by Darren Weaver and Kamelia Angelova. Additional production …
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In the weeks and months after the attacks of September 11, 2001, there was an image that circulated heavily online, mostly via email. It showed a man who appeared to be standing on the observation deck of one of the World Trade Center towers. Pictured over his right shoulder was the nose of a jet. …
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