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Maintain open minds about the conspiracy theorists? What do I gain by entertaining crazy wrong ideas? Other than practise in refuting crazy ideas.
by 2muchcoffeeman 11y ago
Maintain open minds about the conspiracy theorists?
What do I gain by entertaining crazy wrong ideas? Other than practise in refuting crazy ideas.
- Almaviva 11y agoRefuting crazy ideas is something extremely important, imo, especially if they are widely held. But you have to refute the best possible version of the argument (if there is one), not a straw man weakened version. The "strongest" version is that we have landed many spacecraft on the moon (placing mirrors, artifacts, etc), but the human part was staged. I think a Chinese photo of clear and obvious _human_ presense on the moon actually would be a big deal as far as putting all the craziness to bed.
- 2muchcoffeeman 11y agoThat's my point though, we only ever give these ideas serious thought when refuting them. Otherwise they are not worthy of consideration. So why keep an open mind towards moon hoax ideas?