![]() The six research partners in the project, funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, are coordinated by Erasmus University Rotterdam. Studying how widespread this kind of thinking is online, and what can be done to combat it, is among the goals of TRESCA. This is no small problem, as we have seen lately with the rise of vocal anti-vaxxers, some of whom promote theories that the COVID-19 vaccines insert microchips in people so the government can spy on them, or that the disease itself comes from 5G wireless transmission towers. And on social media, they spread and reinforce each others’ scepticism. But In studying European attitudes towards science – and online lies or distortions about it – the TRESCA research team has gotten further confirmation of what social scientists have been observing for years: A not-small portion of the population doesn’t trust authority in general, and doesn’t trust scientific authority in particular. That response may surprise you (assuming you’re among the majority who believe in rockets and astronauts). When asked about the landing last year, a fourth of the 7,120 people surveyed in seven countries agreed with a statement that it had all been a hoax. But don’t try telling that to the 25% of Europeans surveyed by the TRESCA EU research project on misinformation. Spoiler alert: Of course, the landing really happened. Check out the video below, courtesy of Streetcap1's YouTube channel.Here’s a quick test: Did man land on the moon in 1969? Or was it a TV studio hoax? Regardless, you may want to take out some tinfoil and fashion it into a helmet and pull out the fillings from your teeth and bury them underneath a tree before watching the video. That honor belongs to Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, who took the first steps on the moon on July 20, 1969. ![]() The 1972 Apollo mission was obviously not the first manned mission to make it to the moon. Whatever the case may be, a lot of these conspiracy theorists also believe that the world is flat and that dinosaurs never existed as well. Or maybe newer technology has been able to get us there. It makes one wonder how we have astronauts in outer space in space stations, but that could mean that's all fake as well. They claim no spacecraft could fly through the radioactive Van Allen belt around Earth as it would have been lethal to fly through and killed anybody on board. But the conspiracy theorists aren't having any of this so-called logic, and instead they want to continue to believe that the government has been faking it this whole time.Ĭonspiracy theorists believe NASA filmed the moon landings in a huge studio. ![]() In addition, some even theorize that Schmitt was the one who took the photo in question. Specifically, Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, a geologist. What many see when they look at the figure reflected in the visor is another astronaut. However, there are others who claim that the figure in the reflection is nothing more than the reflection of another astronaut. And his new discovery appears to have a lot of his fellow lunar conspiracy theorists excited, with some even commenting underneath the picture that the user has made a "good spot." ![]() The amateur stargazer also said that the pictures that he has featured in his new video are the same questions that came under fire in 2009, sparking more doubt in the lunar landings. "You can see some, sort of, it looks like a man, back in the early '70s, long hair, wearing some sort of waistcoat-type thing.and a shadow of that figure presumably." The man narrating the video had this to say. YouTube user Streetcap1 claims that he can see a stagehand, aka, a man not in a space suit in the reflection of the main astronaut's visor. The picture in question is from the 1972 Apollo 17 landing and has led conspiracy theorists to proclaim NASA was faking all of the moon landings.
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