Fox TV's Apollo Moon Hoax

Was reading an interview with Phil Plait in this month's
Astronomy Magazine.

His Bad Astronomy website was catapaulted into the limelight
after he debunked a Feb, 2001 Fox TV show "Conspiracy Theory,
Did We Really Land on the Moon?"

He is quite critical of the show:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
going so far as to call the suggestion that NASA murdered
Chaffee, White and Grissom "a particularly loathsome accusation".

Is Plait being unduly harsh? Isn't Fox a credible news source?


Hop
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"Hop David" wrote in message
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Was reading an interview with Phil Plait in this month's
Astronomy Magazine.

His Bad Astronomy website was catapaulted into the limelight
after he debunked a Feb, 2001 Fox TV show "Conspiracy Theory,
Did We Really Land on the Moon?"

He is quite critical of the show:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
going so far as to call the suggestion that NASA murdered
Chaffee, White and Grissom "a particularly loathsome accusation".

Is Plait being unduly harsh? Isn't Fox a credible news source?

Don't confuse Fox Entertainment (the ones who made the TV show) and Fox
News.

And no, Plait is not being unduly harsh. If anything he is being far to
generous.




Hop
http://clowder.net/hop/index.html

"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in message
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"Hop David" wrote in message
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Was reading an interview with Phil Plait in this month's
Astronomy Magazine.

His Bad Astronomy website was catapaulted into the limelight
after he debunked a Feb, 2001 Fox TV show "Conspiracy Theory,
Did We Really Land on the Moon?"

He is quite critical of the show:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
going so far as to call the suggestion that NASA murdered
Chaffee, White and Grissom "a particularly loathsome accusation".

Is Plait being unduly harsh? Isn't Fox a credible news source?

Don't confuse Fox Entertainment (the ones who made the TV show) and Fox
News.

And no, Plait is not being unduly harsh. If anything he is being far to
generous.

WOOOSHHH!!!!

Was that some satire I saw flying by un-noticed? ;-)

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 06:02:13 -0700, in a place far, far away, Hop
David made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Was reading an interview with Phil Plait in this month's
Astronomy Magazine.

His Bad Astronomy website was catapaulted into the limelight
after he debunked a Feb, 2001 Fox TV show "Conspiracy Theory,
Did We Really Land on the Moon?"

He is quite critical of the show:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
going so far as to call the suggestion that NASA murdered
Chaffee, White and Grissom "a particularly loathsome accusation".

Is Plait being unduly harsh? Isn't Fox a credible news source?

The Fox Network isn't. The Apollo stupidity was an entertainment
program, not a news program.

The Fox News Channel is a separate issue.

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"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 06:02:13 -0700, in a place far, far away, Hop
David made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Was reading an interview with Phil Plait in this month's
Astronomy Magazine.

His Bad Astronomy website was catapaulted into the limelight
after he debunked a Feb, 2001 Fox TV show "Conspiracy Theory,
Did We Really Land on the Moon?"

He is quite critical of the show:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
going so far as to call the suggestion that NASA murdered
Chaffee, White and Grissom "a particularly loathsome accusation".

Is Plait being unduly harsh? Isn't Fox a credible news source?

The Fox Network isn't. The Apollo stupidity was an entertainment
program, not a news program.

The Fox News Channel is a separate issue.

Yes it is. More quality news from Mr Murdoch - just like he puts out in The
Sun.

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:07:27 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
"Dave" made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

The Fox News Channel is a separate issue.

Yes it is. More quality news from Mr Murdoch - just like he puts out in The
Sun.

While I rarely read the Sun, it wouldn't surprise me at all if their
Iraq reporting was more accurate than the Beeb's...

--
simberg.interglobal.org * 310 372-7963 (CA) 307 739-1296 (Jackson Hole)
interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org

"Extraordinary launch vehicles require extraordinary markets..."
Swap the first . and @ and throw out the ".trash" to email me.
Here's my email address for autospammers:

In article , Rand Simberg wrote:

While I rarely read the Sun, it wouldn't surprise me at all if their
Iraq reporting was more accurate than the Beeb's...

The Sun's Iraq reporting tends to reduce to:

a) Our Squaddies Kill Towelheads

b) The Page 3 Girl Wears Khaki (albeit not *much* khaki...)

c) Squaddies Discuss Beckham.

based on my experience of their august publication. ;-)

--
-Andrew Gray

On 16 Sep 2003 21:07:18 GMT, in a place far, far away, Andrew Gray
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

In article , Rand Simberg wrote:

While I rarely read the Sun, it wouldn't surprise me at all if their
Iraq reporting was more accurate than the Beeb's...

The Sun's Iraq reporting tends to reduce to:

a) Our Squaddies Kill Towelheads

b) The Page 3 Girl Wears Khaki (albeit not *much* khaki...)

c) Squaddies Discuss Beckham.

based on my experience of their august publication. ;-)

Which of those are inaccurate (albeit politically incorrect)? Given
the Beeb's performance, prosecution rests. ;-)

--
simberg.interglobal.org * 310 372-7963 (CA) 307 739-1296 (Jackson Hole)
interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org

"Extraordinary launch vehicles require extraordinary markets..."
Swap the first . and @ and throw out the ".trash" to email me.
Here's my email address for autospammers:

Hop David wrote:

Was reading an interview with Phil Plait in this month's
Astronomy Magazine.

His Bad Astronomy website was catapaulted into the limelight
after he debunked a Feb, 2001 Fox TV show "Conspiracy Theory,
Did We Really Land on the Moon?"

He is quite critical of the show:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
going so far as to call the suggestion that NASA murdered
Chaffee, White and Grissom "a particularly loathsome accusation".

Is Plait being unduly harsh? Isn't Fox a credible news source?

Ohh, another troll just fell off the turnip truck! Isn't it cute? :_

"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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On 16 Sep 2003 21:07:18 GMT, in a place far, far away, Andrew Gray
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

In article , Rand Simberg
wrote:

While I rarely read the Sun, it wouldn't surprise me at all if their
Iraq reporting was more accurate than the Beeb's...

The Sun's Iraq reporting tends to reduce to:

a) Our Squaddies Kill Towelheads

b) The Page 3 Girl Wears Khaki (albeit not *much* khaki...)

c) Squaddies Discuss Beckham.

based on my experience of their august publication. ;-)

Which of those are inaccurate (albeit politically incorrect)? Given
the Beeb's performance, prosecution rests. ;-)

What performance. I think you've an issue with Gilligan's performance in
The Sunday Mail rather than a 6am broadcast only about 10 people heard.

Hey, Rand, isn't The Mail one of the news sources you like to quote? They
seemed to believe Gilligan and they haven't retracted either?