Author Topic: Disproving a hoax believer meta-claim  (Read 21019 times)

Offline sts60

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Disproving a hoax believer meta-claim
« on: April 08, 2012, 01:07:58 PM »
The claim by former member rocky/David C/FatFreddy88/etc. over on JREF is that his spamorama of links is being suppressed by frightened forum moderators afraid of letting his super-duper hoax-bustin' information be presented.  He claimed it couldn't be posted on BAUT, so I posted it there.  Then he said:
I'll bet you couldn't get that posted at ApolloHoaxNet.

This is a testable meta-claim about the hoax.  I propose, similarly to BAUT, to test it right now.

So, here in all its... glory, is The information which rocky says can't be allowed on this board.

Knock yourselves out if anyone actually wants to discuss it.  The important thing is that its existence here by reference proves his claim wrong.  Hooray for empiricism.

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Re: Disproving a hoax believer meta-claim
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2012, 01:37:15 PM »
Oh Cosmored.
It's being a long time since I encountered that . . .person.
He's very exhausting to discuss anything with as I recall.

Offline LunarOrbit

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Re: Disproving a hoax believer meta-claim
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2012, 01:43:00 PM »
I'm sure if we took the time to look through all of Rocky's posts on the old forum we would find he had posted all of that already.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth.
I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.
I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
- Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)

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Re: Disproving a hoax believer meta-claim
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2012, 01:53:29 PM »
Oh Cosmored.
It's being a long time since I encountered that . . .person.
He's very exhausting to discuss anything with as I recall.

He mainly posts links to videos that he thinks prove Apollo was faked, and sometimes the "damning evidence" is something 15 minutes into the video that he just doesn't understand. He ignores responses to his claims and we end up arguing in circles.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth.
I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.
I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
- Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)

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Re: Disproving a hoax believer meta-claim
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2012, 03:18:02 PM »
Are hoax believers just getting stupider??? Why even bother to assert something that can be so easily "debunked"??

It's like there're not even "trying" anymore...

Offline raven

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Re: Disproving a hoax believer meta-claim
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2012, 03:36:39 PM »
Oh Cosmored.
It's being a long time since I encountered that . . .person.
He's very exhausting to discuss anything with as I recall.

He mainly posts links to videos that he thinks prove Apollo was faked, and sometimes the "damning evidence" is something 15 minutes into the video that he just doesn't understand. He ignores responses to his claims and we end up arguing in circles.
Yeah, that about sums it up.

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Re: Disproving a hoax believer meta-claim
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2012, 08:57:17 PM »
"What makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before."

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Re: Disproving a hoax believer meta-claim
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2012, 03:06:52 AM »
Been reading that thread, looks like trying to nail jelly to the ceiling.

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Re: Disproving a hoax believer meta-claim
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2012, 08:05:28 AM »
I also loved Freddy's claim that there were a bunch of JREF viewers who secretly agreed with him. STS shot a big hole in this claim with this poll. 268-1 against Freddy's claim of a hoax, in a little under a week, at the time of this post.
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