Teachers: do you believe the moon landings were a hoax?

[noblegiraffe]

I was just on Teacher Tapp and found the results from this poll pretty horrifying: 15% of teachers polled don’t disagree with the statement “I believe the moon landings from 1969 to 1972 were actually a hoax”.

What now? Nearly 1 in 6 of us??

Do you really think that teachers with that view will reply to you in the way you have worded it?? I bloody wouldn’t!

Oh I’m not looking for an argument about the moon landings as they’re just a straight-up fact.

I was hoping fellow teachers would be similarly baffled by the results.

I do not believe that the moon landing was a hoax. However I burst my DB's bubble a couple of months ago. He says they were all taken into the school hall in the afternoon to watch it live. I said that it happened very early in the morning so he couldn't have been at school. It transpired that DM woke me up to watch it as I hadn't started at infants yet but Db and Ds were not awoken as they had to go to school. I remember Dm waking me up a lot around that time to watch rocket launches and splash downs. I used actually complain!!! But it did feel, at the time like oh it's another one.

*The moon landings were

I have no strongly held belief either way. I'm not particularly scientifically literate, so if you told me you could prove they were a hoax, I wouldn't rule it out.

I’ve just found out one of my colleagues (and yes a teacher) is a climate change denier. Same group of people I reckon!

I think it's actually broadly in line with the percentage of the general population who believe they were a hoax.

I have no strongly held belief either way.

Which is a bit weird, I think. Unless you are ambivalent about other major historical events actually happening?

noblegiraffe

I suppose you could put it that way. Until I see a convincing evidence base for any purported fact, I remain open to the possibility that it didn't happen as reported to me.

Well 7 out of those 15 don't disagree or agree.

At the end of the day though,teacher are people with their own thoughts,opinions,experiences and theories. It's not a hive mind . It's also not that shocking that some of them might buy into various conspiracy theories. As long as it doesn't interfere with their teaching it's irrelevant really.

Until I see a convincing evidence base for any purported fact

What everything? Like how many wives Henry VIII had?

noblegiraffe

I've seen that. I studied Tudor History in some depth during my degree.

No, but I have worked with one who believes the earth is flat 🤦🏻‍♀️

So what else are you open to? Titanic didn’t sink? The twin towers were blown up? Chemtrails? Brain gym?!

noblegiraffe

I don't know what some of those things mean. Nothing is an established fact for which I haven't seen a reasonable evidence base. The Moon Landing happens to fall into that category, simply because I haven't seen the evidence. The Titanic, well, I think I've seen enough to accept it.

believes the earth is flat

Um? Like as a gag, surely?

haven't seen the evidence

They were on telly! One small step for man!

I DEFINITELY watched it at school. I remember going into the headmaster’s living room - it was a small village school with the school masters house attached. Maybe there was a repeat later? Anyway, your brother didn’t imagine it.

Oh and I’m a teacher who doesn’t think it was a hoax.

They were on telly! One small step for man!

So is Peppa Pig. It's not real.

If there is compelling evidence that it was a hoax, I've not seen it. If there is compelling evidence it wasn't, I've not seen it.

brain gym

Properly made me snort out loud.

I once had to mediate in an argument between two science teachers about what was causing climate change. At least they both acknowledged it was real.

I saw moon rock brought back in a museum in Edinburgh as a child. Though I suppose they could have been from Leith!

I am sure it wasn’t a hoax, However I am sure that Gagarin wasn’t the first human in space, just the first to survive.

Maybe the moon landings that we know of were the first successful one?

Urbanbeetler I'm not saying my brother imagined it, I was able to prove to him that he did not watch it 'live', whereas I did. He saw a rerun of the live footage.

Sorry - I misunderstood. Have to confess I thought it was live too.