How soon before it is filled with "moon landings were fake" stories?
Actually, having a centralized discussion thread for this would be very cool. Not because the moon landings didn't happen, but because millions of people around the world (30 millions in the US alone) think they didn't.
Conspiracists have managed to sustain public interest in their theories for more than 40 years, despite the rebuttals and third-party evidence. Opinion polls taken in various locations have shown that between 6% and 20% of Americans, 25% of Britons, and 28% of Russians surveyed believe that the manned landings were faked.
So, analyzing and breaking apart said conspiracy theories like those of Bill Kaysing, Milton William Cooper, David Percy or Bart Sibrel would lead to some pretty interesting discussion I think. Same goes with exploring ways for any one of us to find out what happened via experimentation and personal research, or critically engaging in dialogue about the subject at hand from a tabula rasa point of entry.
The same applies for other big pseudo-science or conspiracy theories btw that are directly linked with space and the cosmos. You can have dedicated/centralized threads about the Flat Earth Theory for example, about UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis, about the Fermi Paradox and the Hollow Earth historical concept, and on and on.
It is not about the cheesiness or absurdity of the subject matter after all. It is about using it as a medium to produce meaningful discussion, to sharpen your critical thinking and dissemination skills, and to find ways to both indulge in a little of "truth seeking" and learn to think for yourself instead of simply consuming and adopting the views that offer the path of less intellectual resistance.
It is also a great way for the cuckoos of the forum to come to the light and shine like super-novas..
Anyway joking aside, what I meant to say is that - although the last thing I would be interested in said subforum if implemented would be to dwell in pseudo-science tinfoilhattery - there is no taboo about discussions like these, if they are properly contained and curated/moderated.
