Moon Landing

[TeddyBearRock]

Do you think the moon landing is fake. I'm learning it at school and last we had a huge debate over it and i just sat at the back quietly we are having another one after half term on what other people think like the public, newspapers, scientists and my teacher said i need to get involved.

What are your views?

Here are websites on it, what do you think of what they say?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/5780272/Moon-landing-anniversary-10-reasons-the-Apollo-landings-were-faked.html
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/moon.htm
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast23feb_2/

All views welcome

[Korashk]

Your teacher shouldn't let students debate over whether or not the moon landing was faked.

[Donkey]

Your teacher shouldn't let students debate over whether or not the moon landing was faked.
Why?

OP: I don't think the moon landing was faked. The evidence to say it was is shitty, from what I have seen at least. To be honest I don't care much. In a few dozen years space tourism will get to the point that we will have all seen the moon and probably beyond. This one isn't a biggie.

[Korashk]

Why?
Because it's a school's job to teach students about facts, not give equal credit to absurd and false beliefs. By allowing the debate, the teacher is essentially granting the conspiracy theorists legitimacy where there isn't any.

[ImCoolBeans]

Because it's a school's job to teach students about facts, not give equal credit to absurd and false beliefs. By allowing the debate, the teacher is essentially granting the conspiracy theorists legitimacy where there isn't any.

Regardless, debating is a valuable skill. Teaching it in a class like English is really common and a lot of practice debates in class tend to be focused on whether or not the drinking age should be lowered. If you use your same logic here you're saying that we shouldn't be allowed to debate that because teachers are "giving students the idea that drinking is okay". It's a debate in school, people are allowed to have their opinions, man :P

And regarding the post, I don't think it was faked.

[huginnmuninn]

Because it's a school's job to teach students about facts, not give equal credit to absurd and false beliefs. By allowing the debate, the teacher is essentially granting the conspiracy theorists legitimacy where there isn't any.

how do you know it wasnt faked?

and teachers need to be teaching students how to think not how to memorize information

[Korashk]

Regardless, debating is a valuable skill. Teaching it in a class like English is really common
I agree and understand this. However, there are literally millions of other topics that can be debated that don't have objective answers. My issue is not the debate, my issue is that hard facts are being debated.

If you use your same logic here you're saying that we shouldn't be allowed to debate that because teachers are "giving students the idea that drinking is okay".
Not really, because there isn't an objective answer to whether or not the drinking age should be lowered or whether or not drinking is good for you. Hence those topics being legitimately debatable.

Debating whether or not the moon landing happened is like debating whether or not the earth is flat.

how do you know it wasnt faked?
All of the evidence for it, mainly the transmitters that they left up there that are constantly sending signals to Earth. All of the "evidence" against the moon landing is just criticism of the evidence for it. Criticism that flies in the face of rationality.

and teachers need to be teaching students how to think not how to memorize information
There are ways to do this without granting legitimacy to the absurd.

[ImCoolBeans]

Debating whether or not the moon landing happened is like debating whether or not the earth is flat.

I don't think you could even compare the two. I'm not saying that I think it's flat but there is a bit of evidence, whether it's crappy evidence or not, that it may be fake - and some people do believe it. It's up to your interpretation.

[Genghis Khan]

I don't think you could even compare the two. I'm not saying that I think it's flat but there is a bit of evidence, whether it's crappy evidence or not, that it may be fake - and some people do believe it. It's up to your interpretation.

So? There's bits of evidence to say the earth is flat. The earth being flat has 'evidence' that holds equal incredibility to evidence that suggests we never landed on the moon.

[ImCoolBeans]

So? There's bits of evidence to say the earth is flat. The earth being flat has 'evidence' that holds equal incredibility to evidence that suggests we never landed on the moon.

You have a point, I just think that saying that you shouldn't be "allowed" to debate it is a bit rash. Not that I agree that the moon landing was fake.

[Genghis Khan]

You have a point, I just think that saying that you shouldn't be "allowed" to debate it is a bit rash. Not that I agree that the moon landing was fake.

My initial reaction was that too. But I just don't see any point in encouraging students to indulge in things like conspiracy theories and in this special case make another side of the argument in a topic where there actually isn't a debate, there's just the fact.

I mean really, there's tons of other debates people can have in a classroom.