Conspiracy Theories, Skepticism, and Critical Thinking

 Kaysing has promised to explain how the US Government faked the Moon Landing. So far, he’s only explained that sometimes, the government lies. I know, I shudder every time I read that. He gave us a list of things the government lied about claiming that they were faked—when none of them were fake. The closest he gets is the Gulf of Tonkin. He’s going to build on his earlier “work” by explaining what the Defense Intelligence School (DIA) is and it’s relationship to the Apollo Simulation Project (ASP). Conspiracy theorists love acronyms. In reality the DIA is the military’s intelligence operation. They take Naval Intelligence, Army Intelligence, Airforce, Coast Guard, Space Force (?) reports and evaluate the national military urgency of them. They then report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and ultimately the president. It’s not a mysterious organization, but most people are unaware that it exists like the National Reconnaissance Office that is in charge of spy satellites. We also must ...

 Last week I began with a comment about the layout of this book. I remarked that each chapter seems to be a small snippet of the theory and that the book lent itself to a chapter-by-chapter dissection. This would be a change from the previous works where the chapters were significantly longer, denser with conspiratorial content, and terrible writing. This chapter however decided to be more like we’ve been used to and now I have to split the chapter. It’s not a problem, it’s just frustrating because I had gotten used to it already. This chapter is going to explain to us “how” NASA faked the Moon landing. The chapter begins with a quote from the book “Manhattan Project, the Untold Story.” Coincidentally, I believe that I read this book while I was in high school (I followed this with the 1995 Dark Sun, about the making of the hydrogen bomb). Originally it was published in 1967 (I read a revised edition for the 50th anniversary of the bomb), and is the story of the people who worked o...