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??

To me, it's not a fact until I have evaluated the evidence.

What makes you capable of evaluating the evidence for everything? Your to-do list must be ginormous, not only having to evaluate everything, but having to become an expert in so many different disciplines.

Anyone listened to this song with this topic in mind ;
Californication
From the red got chilli peppers.

Nothing you say is a 'fact' until I have the opportunity to evaluate the evidence myself.

Getting in a plane for the first time must have been terrifying

Please assure me all you hoax believers aren't teachers? 

I remember in my first year at uni studying maths a Professor saying ‘you shouldn’t believe a theorem to be true until you prove it yourself to your own satisfaction’.

Hang on Professor, Gauss, Euler and the rest of them were way better at maths than me. Why am I the arbiter when deferring to them would make more sense?

You mention chemtrails as an example of conspiracy theories, but these do exist.

Hold on. Can we back up a minute here.

Contrails exist. Chemtrails are conspiracy theories.

Contrails are the lines left in the sky by planes due to physics. These are a fact. I can see a plane leaving some right now.

Chemtrails are a theory that these lines are actually full of chemical agents planted there by the government to make all the people compliant, sterile, gay, straight, get cancer depending on who you listen to.

"Hang on Professor, Gauss, Euler and the rest of them were way better at maths than me. Why am I the arbiter when deferring to them would make more sense?"

Because we live in the modern world with more information ? Something that proved to be right in the past can be proven wrong later. May not be so true in maths, but can be true in other areas.

It's kind of scary, there's too much information these days.

It’s not that so much as that the rise of the internet has made it too easy for the crazy conspiracy theorists to spread their beliefs at an alarming rate. Before, you might have had one or two in a village who everyone knew about, but now they can get together in the virtual world to prop up and validate each other’s beliefs. Anti-vaxxers are a good example of what I mean.

Wow - why the belligerence OP?

How do you feel about faith schools?

I'll just leave this here....

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”

― Mark Twain

That's the thing.
"Anti-vaxxers are a good example of what I mean."
I am reasonably educated, but still became a bit worried about it. Did it in the end, but if I was more capable of believing what I read/heard, I could have been one of them. And I do have a friend who truly believes her dd's autism was caused by it.

brizzledrizzle, but what do you think about 1 in 6 people, the teacher, is "stupid people", in your words?

They are responsible in educating children.

Just to balance CountFosco

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@visitorsentrance Chemtrails exist. In the UK they have been sprayed over entire counties. They also use them to control the weather. Have done for decades.

If you mean seeding clouds to promote a bit of local rain, ok, probably true. If you mean anything beyond that I think you need a tinfoil hat

"Chemtrails exist. In the UK they have been sprayed over entire counties."
What has been sprayed and by whom?

My lovely teacher friend believes that the pyramids were built by aliens. She wouldn’t tell children that though. No idea on her opinions in the moon landing. I shall find out.

There were a lot of political reasons for faking the first moon landing so it’s not entirely mental to think it was staged. And it’s not beyond the realms of possibility.

The average IQ is 100.

Chemtrails exist. In the UK they have been sprayed over entire counties. They also use them to control the weather. Have done for decades.

Citation needed.

Not my words, those of Mark Twain. Some people are, naturally, less intelligent than others. Some people do not have the general knowledge and intelligence to be a teacher. I, for example, could not do the OPs job but I could do a fine job of teaching other subjects.

@thesonofabitch www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/apr/21/uk.medicalscience

This is just one example. There are loads more.

Why haven’t we been since then. iPhones have more technology than their rocket did, should’ve opened up an M&S food store on there by now

Msm article on cloud seeding www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/cloud-seeding-weather-control-manipulate-effects-chemicals-climate-change-a8160146.html

There were a lot of political reasons for faking the first moon landing so it’s not entirely mental to think it was staged. And it’s not beyond the realms of possibility.

And then you step back and think ok, why would they stage 6 more moon missions, one a failure? And then you think ‘ok, they’re real’. Then you look at how quickly those other missions took place, in very similar looking rockets, with very similar photos of the moon, and you work backwards and think ‘yeah, more likely that they’re all real than one fake and others real’.

That’s before you even get into the whole lasers off the moon thing.