Anybody fancy a really good laugh? Tired of debunking the same old 40-year old hoax nonsense? The lunatic Expattaffy1 has come up with something new: he thinks that "NASA whistleblowers" are using Photoshop to insert "whistleblower clues" into Apollo EVA photos (and pre-mission training photos) in the last few years and somehow getting them published by ALSJ. Anything he doesn't recognize in an Apollo photo is a "clue" - including EVA equipment such as tool clips, zip fasteners and the 'red apple' purge valve actuator. Here's his most recent example:
I've chosen this video to show you because (at a mere twenty minutes) it's actually one of Taffy's shorter efforts. I don't bother leaving comments any more (I just make the occasional YT video about him when I've got the time) but maybe somebody else would like to take issue with him (if you have the willpower to sit through the IQ-sapping streams of drivel). Maybe someone can challenge him to explain how defacing Apollo photos is proof of anything at all - or challenge him to produce before-and-after' versions of "photoshopped" NASA images.
This sort of lunacy is not something I cheerfully inflict on a serious forum like this, but he seems to be garnering a growing coterie of acolytes. There's little hope he'll listen to reason and all you'll get in return is a tirade of foul-mouthed idiocy (or just get deleted and blocked), but maybe we can prevent visitors to his channel falling for his special brand of stupidity. In general epistemological terms, his arguments aren't really significantly more deranged than current Flat Earth nonsense, but we all know how that is snow-balling out of control.
