Re: Moon Landing expose on Chanel 9 (AUS)

From: Jay Windley (webmaster_at_clavius.org)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:03:43 -0700

"Jonathan Silverlight" <jsilverlight@spam.merseia.fsnet.co.uk.invalid> wrote
in message news:H17lcld3ws4BFw8d@merseia.fsnet.co.uk...
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| Perhaps unfortunately, TV has to maintain balance.

I wrestle with this myself. Every so often someone criticizes my web site
for reproducing the hoaxers' claims, even if only to refute them. They see
it as helping out "the other side" by giving them an audience for free.
Personally I don't see it that way. Bad ideas won't go away just because we
leave them alone, especially if their proponents are fanatics. I conceive
of the discussion as putting the two arguments side-by-side and seeing which
one of them stands taller. It's not a matter -- in my view of the
situation -- of starting them out on equal footing. Clearly they don't
belong that way. But it is a matter, instead, of comparing the two ideas to
show just how mismatched they really are.

| ...in this case it made the pro-hoax people appear a bunch
| of paranoid trailer trash, and the antis a bunch of - scientists and
| engineers? No harm done, then!

In this case no, although there were some arguments left unanswered. If I
had known about Ralph Rene's leaf-blower trick, for example, I'd have had an
aswer for it. But I didn't know anything about what the other people on the
program were going to say.

I do know where the producers of the film stand on the issue. They don't
accept for a minute that the landings were hoaxed. Personally I think they
gave the hoax theorists just enough rope to hang themselves. The notion
that the CIA has tried more than once to kill Bill Kaysing (or so he claims)
is just funny! He faxes out his home address to everyone who expresses an
interest in his work. We may have a dysfunctional intelligence community in
the U.S., but I'm sure they're competent to eliminate an elderly man living
alone in a trailer -- if that were what they wanted to do.

| But I still want to know if Jim Oberg was in a set or his study :-)

Well, I was out in the desert up to my [deleted] in scorpions,
thankyouverymuch! :-) 

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