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Originally Posted by Omaroo
As is the animal, conspiracy theorists probably won't take heed and still refute these images. I pity their stupidity and really wonder why their psychology is as twisted as it is. I guess that they have to try and prove to the world that they, as individuals, are still smarter than everyone else on this mortal coil. Well...either that or they refuse to believe that anyone at all could be clever enough to pull off the real thing - obviously because they themselves never could.
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Some of the conspiracists have some semi valid points. One of them relates to what we are asked to 'believe' when science is published, which in turn, is very much shaped by what we see in photographic images. Putting aside the hordes who worked on the moon landing programs, (and hard evidence such as the rocks retrieved), at the end of the day, I have to confess, the guy in the street has to rely very heavily on his/her imagination, and how things seem from photographic images. But how easy is it to deceive the eye ? (We covered some of this in a recent 'illusions' thread).
I'm starting to see these conspiracy theories as being motivated more by the trend away from science, and a reaction stemming from a 'loss of faith' in science and scientists, overall.
(This is of course, on top of the usual book publishing profit motives).
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