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Yes, Apollo 11 did go to the Moon. No, the US flag isn't 'waving' in the wind...
The Moon landings were faked. Apollo 11 didn't happen. Humans never set foot on the Moon. Heard all this before?
Conspiracy theories surrounding the Moon landings have proved worryingly persistent in the 50 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first small steps on the lunar surface.
NASA's landmark achievement is still being challenged.
Despite there being a wealth of information online debunking these conspiracy theories, the cries of hoax continue. Why?
“We find ourselves awash in an ocean of information online," National Space Centre Discovery Director Profesor Anu Ojha said during a 2019 lecture at Royal Museums Greenwich.
"There has been more data produced in the last two years than in the whole of human history. This information ocean is getting more turbulent every single day," he continued. "The only tools we have to navigate through this maelstrom are the critical thinking skills that we are trying to develop in people as scientists."
So how can science help to debunk Moon landing conspiracy theories?
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The Moon landings were faked. Apollo 11 didn't happen. Humans never set foot on the Moon. Heard all this before?
Conspiracy theories surrounding the Moon landings have proved worryingly persistent in the 50 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first small steps on the lunar surface.
NASA's landmark achievement is still being challenged.
Despite there being a wealth of information online debunking these conspiracy theories, the cries of hoax continue. Why?
“We find ourselves awash in an ocean of information online," National Space Centre Discovery Director Profesor Anu Ojha said during a 2019 lecture at Royal Museums Greenwich.
"There has been more data produced in the last two years than in the whole of human history. This information ocean is getting more turbulent every single day," he continued. "The only tools we have to navigate through this maelstrom are the critical thinking skills that we are trying to develop in people as scientists."
So how can science help to debunk Moon landing conspiracy theories?
Conspiracy theory 1: shadows in the Moon landing photos prove the images were faked
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Moon landing conspiracy theories, debunked
The Moon landings were faked. Apollo 11 didn't happen. Humans never set foot on the Moon. Heard all this before?
