...all of them containing major discrepancies...
The people at Clavius, whom you admit are experts, proved how incapable you were of identifying discrepancies in an aerospace engineering project.
...which NASA have never explained.
The explanation is Rene's case is the same as the explanation in your case -- neither one of you knows the first thing about space engineering. All his claims are based on assumptions and misconceptions. Yours too -- you lied through your teeth about getting a physics degree at St Andrews, and no ghost can save you from that fraud.
Here's how credible Rene's claims were. NASA was set to pay engineering James Oberg $15,000 to write a book addressing those claims. But when the story was picked up by the media, there was a huge outpouring of criticism from American taxpayers against NASA for spending their money to address such obvious nonsense. The public backlash was so great NASA canceled the project.
Oberg, however, continued to write the book on his own. In his debate with Rene, one of the "discrepancies" came up -- namely, the photo of astronaut Mike Collins in his Gemini space suit on a black background, which appears as the frontispiece of Collins' book
Carrying the Fire. The same photo appears later in the book, with the background intact (the inside of the KC-135) and Collins' caption, "The zero-g aircraft. Ugh." Rene, in his book, claimed Collins was trying to pass off the frontispiece as an actual photo taken in space.
Of course Collins claims no such thing. Rene just got it in his addled head that this is why Collins printed it. We all pointed this out to him. But Rene stood firm and upped the ante: he claimed
his edition of the book made the claim. Well, between us all at Bad Astronomy, we had every edition of the Collins book that had ever been printed. But Rene stood firmer. When Oberg offered him $10,000 for the alleged smoking-gun copy of the book, Rene ran away.
It's not surprising that a liar and a charlatan of such magnitude would be your hero, Burns.
Why they don't just admit it was a Hoax as there is no doubt after reading this book that it was.
Because the vast majority of people are not idiots, laughed at this book, and realized it for the dreck it is. There may be no doubt
in your mind, but I've amply demonstrated that your doubt has no toehold in reality.
I am going to send Rene a copy of my book to see what he makes of it Jockndoris
He's dead. Let me know how that works out for you. And since I'm quite familiar with how Rene behaved when he was alive, I can't wait to see you lie through your teeth about meeting his ghost too.
From that familiarity I can tell you exactly how Rene would have responded to you book: he would have accused you of stealing his ideas and then ranted about how you're taking his business away from him. That's pretty much how Rene responded to any hoax claimant that wasn't him.
