Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight

[Andromeda]

No, I won't be watching.

http://www.channel5.com/shows/did-we-land-on-the-moon/episodes/did-we-land-on-the-moon

SMH.

[gillianren]

Ooo, ooo!  I can answer this one!

[Count Zero]

My favorite line from the comments:

There is something in the human psyche that makes some people always reject what everyone else accepts to such an extent that they believe the whole world is in a conspiracy against them. They don't need explanations so much as treatment.

[darren r]

It's a pretty old 'documentary'. Is it the infamous Fox one from a few years back? If I remember rightly, it ends with a discussion about what the LRO will reveal....

Anyway, C5 showed it about 6 months ago. Lord knows why they're showing it again now.

[JayUtah]

It's a pretty old 'documentary'. Is it the infamous Fox one from a few years back?

Same title, so maybe.

Anyway, C5 showed it about 6 months ago. Lord knows why they're showing it again now.

Probably for the same reason Fox did.

[Echnaton]

Maybe it will stir up some new activity here.

[beedarko]

Does anyone else find that the Brits seem more predisposed toward disbelieving the history of Apollo?  I've never seen any studies or polls which compare the percentage of doubters by country, but based on some of the exchanges I've had, my hunch is that the UK would rank very high in a nation-by-nation comparison.

Maybe their beliefs are shaped by some weird sense of national pride or envy instead of rational thought.

[Echnaton]

Does anyone else find that the Brits seem more predisposed toward disbelieving the history of Apollo? 

No.  I would guess that Brits are no more or less than any other country, only we Americans can read and sometimes understand their writing.  As opposed to Russians.

[Dalhousie]

Does anyone else find that the Brits seem more predisposed toward disbelieving the history of Apollo?  I've never seen any studies or polls which compare the percentage of doubters by country, but based on some of the exchanges I've had, my hunch is that the UK would rank very high in a nation-by-nation comparison.

Evidence?

Maybe their beliefs are shaped by some weird sense of national pride or envy instead of rational thought.

No more than anywhere else.

[Trebor]

Does anyone else find that the Brits seem more predisposed toward disbelieving the history of Apollo?  I've never seen any studies or polls which compare the percentage of doubters by country, but based on some of the exchanges I've had, my hunch is that the UK would rank very high in a nation-by-nation comparison.

I suspect you have a biased sample there.

Maybe their beliefs are shaped by some weird sense of national pride or envy instead of rational thought.

Not that I have seen.
There is not really all that much national pride here either....

[darren r]

I've only ever met one person that professed to believe it was a hoax but he was easily debunked. And I suspect he was only doing it to wind me up anyway.

I did have a friend who believed it but he changed his mind before I met him. When I asked why, he told me ; "I came to my senses."

[gillianren]

I think I've met one actual HB in real life, and he had an obvious political axe to grind; he thought NASA's budget should be spent on other things.  So okay, fair enough I suppose, though his "other things" included veterinary care for all former police dogs.  He was lucky, though, that I was being tactful so as not to freak out a worried friend and the receptionist was more concerned about keeping his job than defending the honour of his father--who had invented some piece of equipment used on the Apollo capsule.  The receptionist and I had a nice, surly chat after the guy left, though.

[Chew]

Maybe it will stir up some new activity here.

Soon we will get someone who watched it, believed every wrong piece of information presented without fact-checking a single claim, and then they will chide us for not thinking for ourselves.

[gillianren]

Yes.  Won't that be fun?

[dwight]

It certainly will be something we have never experienced before. I love adventures!! I hope they'll tell me a thing or two about the TV technology of the program - it's obvious I know nothing about it!