clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> I often get the feeling that the book-writing and DVD-selling subset of 
> conspiracy theorists /do/ know that they're selling crap.

  I think that what is happening with many of the conspiracy theorists who
are producing the "evidence" (rather than simply parroting what they have
heard from others) is that they honestly believe that *some* of that is
genuine evidence of fakery/conspiracy, while knowing perfectly well that
some other arguments are not valid and is easily explainable and verifiable.
Yet regardless of this they keep repeating both types of arguments.

  The Moon landing photos not showing stars is a perfect example of this.
Any conspiracy theorists can corroborate this by checking *other* photographs
taken in orbit (photos which are not in any way under suspicion) and see that
they, too, don't show any stars. They can corroborate this by consulting
books and professionals on the subject of photography. They can corroborate
this by making actual tests. I believe many of the conspiracy theorists who
produce "evidence" know that it's perfectly explainable why there are no
stars in the photos (and, on the contrary, if there *were* stars, *that*
would be suspicious).

  However, they still keep repeating the same old argument about the stars,
even though they know that the argument is not valid.

  Why? Because the stars argument sinks well on unwary people, and what they
are doing is so-called shotgun argumentation: They need as many arguments as
possible so as to give an impression that there's *tons* of evidence that
the photos are fake.

  This is a dishonest tactic, of course. They are basically lying (in other
words, claiming that the lack of stars is a genuine evidence of fakery even
though they themselves know it's not).

  And then they call NASA and the US government "liars". Talk about hypocrisy.

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