"NJ" wrote in message
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THE APOLLO HOAX FAQ version 4.3 - July 2004
I would remind the reader that It's up to scientists and
claimants of this or that fact to provide proof of their claims.
That's how it works in science and to do this scientists use
something called "the scientific method". When they are done
presenting their case anyone may examine it for errors and
so forth. If we find flaws or errors in their method or in the
results of their scientific work then we may call in to question
the validity of their claims. It's just not up to us to prove
that man did or did not walk on the Moon. We are only to show that
the evidence as presented to us is faulty, contrived or in some
way unrepresentative of what we know and we may then throw the
evidence out.

No. The claim that "Man Went To The Moon" is not a scientific claim; it's an
historical claim. Historians can only decide the validity of an historical
assertion; for instance "Edward VIII abdicated the British throne" by
weighing the evidence for and against- but there is no scientific way to
absolutely confirm or deny its truth, since it's history, it has been and
gone, there is no experiment that others can repeat.

Personally, I believe that Edward VIII abdicated the British throne, but I
have no personal proof that he did so, or even that he existed. There is
much documentary evidence which agrees that he did. Older family members
remember it being reported in the newspapers. There is newsreel footage of
this supposed king, and of the situation surrounding his abdication. But it
is possible that he never existed; that all the newsreels were faked, that
the press was seeded with stories about this imaginary king and his
imaginary abdication, for some secret reason known only to the British
establishment. But that is enormously unlikely. The conspiracy would have
had to have been huge. Further, had it been discovered, the resulting
fallout for the British ruling classes would have been catastrophic.

Likewise, the "Moon Hoax". This immense supposed conspiracy is enormously
unlikely. Again, the fallout from its discovery would have been catastrophic
for the US; and remember, the USSR would hardly have helped a cover-up. It
is very very very slightly possible; on the grounds that just about any
historical event could be a manufactured hoax- but since all evidence
available is consistent with a genuine moon landing having occurred, we must
conclude that it happened.

If nothing else, bear in mind that if there were really flaws in NASA's
portrayal of the science of the missions, e.g. the hazard from radiation,
the US's fierce rivals the USSR, which was jam-packed with world-class
physicists and aerospace engineers with access to scads of their own
independent data on the space environment from their own space programme,
would have wasted no time in debunking the whole thing.

Which they didn't. Unless they were in on it too, and the whole "Cold War"
was a sham, and....

Ian