Re: Moon landing Hoax

[Robert A Cohen <bbq@ESU.EDU>]

Perhaps JSD is correct that it should take less than 5 seconds to figure
out that the Fox approach was totally unscientific.  Unfortunately, it
seems a large portion of the public does not have that capability.
Apparently, many people think science is just the attempt to obtain
plausible (to them) explanations "no holds barred" (creation science comes
to mind as an example). Should we be surprised when people claim as
"scientific" any explanation that, to them, appears plausible?  What is it
that we are teaching them in school anyway?

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| Robert Cohen               Department of Physics       |
|                            East Stroudsburg University |
| bbq@esu.edu                East Stroudsburg, PA  18301 |
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, John S. Denker wrote:

> *) The final question is whether the Fox approach to these matters was
> totally unscientific.  It should take less than 5 seconds to figure out
> that it was.  They ignored mountains of evidence on one side and
> highlighted pathetically invalid evidence on the other side.  This
> constitutes either outright lying or reckless disregard for the truth
> (which comes to the same thing).