I was at the excellent talk (organised by Armagh Observatory) by Martin Hendry at St Patrick's Trian last night. Entitled "Did we really land on the Moon?", it was prompted by Dr Hendry's viewing of that lying TV programme the Fox TV network showed in 2001. In just over an hour, the ten most commonly cited arguments (no stars, waving flags, non-parallel shadows etc) from the makers of moronic DVDs and stupid books were exposed as the nonsense they are. It was a good event, although it did appear to be preaching to the converted. I doubt if there were any hardcore hoax believers in the audience.
If you missed this talk but would like to know more on this topic, Dr Hendry recommended the wonderful website www.clavius.org.
There is a video of the talk on the Observatory web site at this link,
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