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Review:
Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On The Moon?
Written
By Rick Ellis, February 15th, 2001
The price
of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, is having to
put up with a lot of crappy television. Free speech is a wonderful
thing, but it wouldn't hurt to team that up with a bit of common
sense.
All of which
brings us to the Fox TV special "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land
on the Moon?" It's a goofball collection of weird theories and
paranoid ravings that hope to convince viewers that NASA faked
the Apollo missions on a movie set.
The special
recounts a long laundry list of supposed "facts" that
the people interviewed claim to show that the moon missions were
faked. They trot out all sorts of thoughts...the photography looks
wrong, the technology wasn't perfected, the astronauts would have
been killed by radiation, the lunar lander was unstable...and
that's just touching the surface of their paranoia.
The problem
is that, while the special does have a certain amount of Jerry
Springer-like entertainment value, it displays about as much scientific
fact as the average episode of Mork And Mindy.
I won't begin
to go into the details here, but it should take you about two
minutes of searching on the Internet before you find one of the
many sites that take viewers step-by-step through the many misstatements
and blunders commited by the folks associated with the special.
It's bad enough that they're wrong, but they're wrong in such
idiotic ways that it's almost embarrassing.
If you're
looking for a laugh or two, this special may do the trickt. But
if you're hoping for any sliver of enlightenment, you're destined
to be disappointed.
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