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Apollo Discussions => The Hoax Theory => Topic started by: Andromeda on June 06, 2013, 12:03:12 PM

Title: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: Andromeda on June 06, 2013, 12:03:12 PM
No, I won't be watching.

http://www.channel5.com/shows/did-we-land-on-the-moon/episodes/did-we-land-on-the-moon

SMH.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: gillianren on June 06, 2013, 12:35:21 PM
Ooo, ooo!  I can answer this one!
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: Count Zero on June 06, 2013, 03:24:44 PM
My favorite line from the comments:

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There is something in the human psyche that makes some people always reject what everyone else accepts to such an extent that they believe the whole world is in a conspiracy against them. They don't need explanations so much as treatment.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: darren r on June 06, 2013, 05:26:42 PM
It's a pretty old 'documentary'. Is it the infamous Fox one from a few years back? If I remember rightly, it ends with a discussion about what the LRO will reveal....

Anyway, C5 showed it about 6 months ago. Lord knows why they're showing it again now.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: JayUtah on June 06, 2013, 06:36:53 PM
It's a pretty old 'documentary'. Is it the infamous Fox one from a few years back?

Same title, so maybe.

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Anyway, C5 showed it about 6 months ago. Lord knows why they're showing it again now.

Probably for the same reason Fox did.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: Echnaton on June 07, 2013, 12:17:12 AM
Maybe it will stir up some new activity here.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: beedarko on June 07, 2013, 01:11:29 AM
Does anyone else find that the Brits seem more predisposed toward disbelieving the history of Apollo?  I've never seen any studies or polls which compare the percentage of doubters by country, but based on some of the exchanges I've had, my hunch is that the UK would rank very high in a nation-by-nation comparison.

Maybe their beliefs are shaped by some weird sense of national pride or envy instead of rational thought.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: Echnaton on June 07, 2013, 07:53:10 AM
Does anyone else find that the Brits seem more predisposed toward disbelieving the history of Apollo? 

No.  I would guess that Brits are no more or less than any other country, only we Americans can read and sometimes understand their writing.  As opposed to Russians.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: Dalhousie on June 07, 2013, 08:21:46 AM
Does anyone else find that the Brits seem more predisposed toward disbelieving the history of Apollo?  I've never seen any studies or polls which compare the percentage of doubters by country, but based on some of the exchanges I've had, my hunch is that the UK would rank very high in a nation-by-nation comparison.

Evidence?

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Maybe their beliefs are shaped by some weird sense of national pride or envy instead of rational thought.

No more than anywhere else.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: Trebor on June 07, 2013, 09:10:14 AM
Does anyone else find that the Brits seem more predisposed toward disbelieving the history of Apollo?  I've never seen any studies or polls which compare the percentage of doubters by country, but based on some of the exchanges I've had, my hunch is that the UK would rank very high in a nation-by-nation comparison.

I suspect you have a biased sample there.

Maybe their beliefs are shaped by some weird sense of national pride or envy instead of rational thought.

Not that I have seen.
There is not really all that much national pride here either....
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: darren r on June 07, 2013, 10:51:16 AM
I've only ever met one person that professed to believe it was a hoax but he was easily debunked. And I suspect he was only doing it to wind me up anyway.

I did have a friend who believed it but he changed his mind before I met him. When I asked why, he told me ; "I came to my senses."
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: gillianren on June 07, 2013, 11:20:00 AM
I think I've met one actual HB in real life, and he had an obvious political axe to grind; he thought NASA's budget should be spent on other things.  So okay, fair enough I suppose, though his "other things" included veterinary care for all former police dogs.  He was lucky, though, that I was being tactful so as not to freak out a worried friend and the receptionist was more concerned about keeping his job than defending the honour of his father--who had invented some piece of equipment used on the Apollo capsule.  The receptionist and I had a nice, surly chat after the guy left, though.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: Chew on June 07, 2013, 06:09:11 PM
Maybe it will stir up some new activity here.

Soon we will get someone who watched it, believed every wrong piece of information presented without fact-checking a single claim, and then they will chide us for not thinking for ourselves.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: gillianren on June 07, 2013, 08:07:54 PM
Yes.  Won't that be fun?
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: dwight on June 07, 2013, 09:31:03 PM
It certainly will be something we have never experienced before. I love adventures!! I hope they'll tell me a thing or two about the TV technology of the program - it's obvious I know nothing about it!
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: Tedward on June 08, 2013, 05:40:02 AM
Don't worry. Icke is supposedly setting up a TV and radio service, that will no doubt tell the unbiased truth far better than any mainstream show.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: Mr Gorsky on June 13, 2013, 08:55:22 AM
Interestingly, it was another Channel 5 documentary (this one (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425571/)) that originally opened my eyes to the fact that the moon landing hoax was even a thing, and brought me to this site in the first place ... where I found that one of the actual scientists in the show (Jay Windley) was a regular poster.

And I cannot even recount how much I have learned from Jay and others here in the time since then.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: Echnaton on June 13, 2013, 09:39:10 AM
And I cannot even recount how much I have learned from Jay and others here in the time since then.

+1
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: darren r on June 13, 2013, 01:17:07 PM
Interestingly, it was another Channel 5 documentary (this one (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425571/))

Ah, yes. I remember that. It was a good one. Seems to me if they're going to show that other travesty they should show this one to provide some balance.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: Captain Swoop on July 18, 2013, 04:09:33 AM
Does anyone else find that the Brits seem more predisposed toward disbelieving the history of Apollo?  I've never seen any studies or polls which compare the percentage of doubters by country, but based on some of the exchanges I've had, my hunch is that the UK would rank very high in a nation-by-nation comparison.

Maybe their beliefs are shaped by some weird sense of national pride or envy instead of rational thought.

A lot of Brits don't believe Apollo was real because it is American not because they have thought about it in any depth or have seen anything to make them disbelieve.
Since the Second Gulf War here is a lot of vague anti - American feeling in the UK.
If pressed a lot of the moon hoax believers will admit they have no reason to think it is a hoax apart from it being American.
Title: Re: Channel 5 showing a hoaxist "documentary" tonight
Post by: Tedward on July 19, 2013, 06:31:49 AM
Not really asked people, I expect there are the same believers in proportion?

I would imagine there are more thinking "if only", missed opportunities rather than it never happened. More the bitter n twisted man muttering into his ale at the end of the bar "if only we had hem Germans after the war" sort of thinking. Not based on any reality.