Oh, The Randomness! We Never Went to the Moon pp. 184-187
The first section of this week’s appendix is titled “The Astronauts.” This section does something that we haven’t seen in a while—it raises an interesting point. It does so accidentally, but the point is still raised. Kaysing tells us that he was invited to a televised debate with Buzz Aldrin to discuss whether the Moon landing was faked. Aldrin didn’t show up, and Kaysing acts as though this was an act of cowardice, “ it was his obligation as a man and public servant to defend his case in person. ” Aldrin was not a public servant. He doesn’t owe anyone anything. The man comment is just proto-toxic masculinity, Kaysing is trying to shame him into showing up. We are told that Armstrong has disappeared because he won’t speak to either Kaysing or his co-investigators. Finally, we are told that “Astronaut Irving’s mother berated me on radio when I appeared on the Jim Eason show in San Fransisco. But when I offered to debate her son on the same program, there was dead silence.” Kaysing...