Ah, but you miss an important point about that particular fallacy. Namely, "the people" in the argument must, for it to be fallacious,
have no particular expertise in the subject. Once the people being cited are experts in their fields, using their consensus as evidence is no longer fallacious.
Opinion?I have repeatedly stated that I am uninterested in promoting or disproving a hoax theory. My goal is singular. I intend to prove that the reported mission dose of Apollo 11 is unrealistic. As a consequence of that goal if it can be deduced the existence of a hoax exist then consider it collateral damage. That is not my intent.
However, in making that argument, you insist that everything else must have somehow been faked. Which means you're absolutely promoting a hoax, and that you cannot even begin to suggest how that hoax would be perpetrated just makes you look foolish, since--as I do keep pointing out--you are incapable of explaining why the answer is not more simply "I do not understand the thing I'm claiming is wrong so well as I say I do."
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It is a consequence and not an intention.