moon landing hoax fallacy
After 45 years, the moon landing hoax is still a prominent debate. On July 20, 1969 America changed forever. This remarkable event had not taken not because of any event that took place here on earth, but a remarkable event that happen in the heavens, when man first walked on the moon. At this time our world was changing in leaps and bounds and it was a time of endless opportunity. In spite of all the evidence to the contrary, theorists say the moon landing was stage The U.S. government, desperate to either beat the Soviets in the space race or distract from Vietnam, put Neil Armstrong under lights on a secret set somewhere in the desert. Despite theorists’ claims that man never landed on the moon, their supposed evidence contain black and white fallacy, circular reasoning, non sequitur fallacy, and straw man fallacies. Scientists have proven that these claims are invalid with explanations of the discrepancies that theorists have failed to acknowledge.
Conspiracy theorists have pointed out that when the first moon landing was shown on live television, viewers could clearly see the American flag waving and fluttering as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted it. Clint Rainey of New York Times argues, “Old Gloey’s slo-mo ripple effect is the original proof Armstrong and Aldrin were just overeducated actors, The moon has no air, cynics point out, hence no breeze”(Rainey1). This ridiculous claim is a black and white fallacy because he is implying that there is only two reasons that could make the flag move. As NASA points out it is the lack of friction, “The flag was rippling because when the astronaut put the flag in, he might have pushed it a bit and because of the law of action and reaction (3rd Newton's law) and law of inertia (1st Newton's law), it continued to ripple” (NASA This evidence in the moonlanding hoax is misleading and inaccurate.
Perhaps the oldest and most favorite argument is the absence of stars in the background of any Apollo photographs on
Conspiracy theorists have pointed out that when the first moon landing was shown on live television, viewers could clearly see the American flag waving and fluttering as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted it. Clint Rainey of New York Times argues, “Old Gloey’s slo-mo ripple effect is the original proof Armstrong and Aldrin were just overeducated actors, The moon has no air, cynics point out, hence no breeze”(Rainey1). This ridiculous claim is a black and white fallacy because he is implying that there is only two reasons that could make the flag move. As NASA points out it is the lack of friction, “The flag was rippling because when the astronaut put the flag in, he might have pushed it a bit and because of the law of action and reaction (3rd Newton's law) and law of inertia (1st Newton's law), it continued to ripple” (NASA This evidence in the moonlanding hoax is misleading and inaccurate.
Perhaps the oldest and most favorite argument is the absence of stars in the background of any Apollo photographs on