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The Moon Landing part 1: The people who "love" physics


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In this episode Bhi and Sophie talk about the people who love physics but don't understand it at all, and try to understand how one of the greatest scientific achievements in human history has become an object of derision for so-called skeptics.

Sources:
Launius, Roger D. Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2019.


https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/12/18/78549401.html?pageNumber=30


https://gen.medium.com/the-moon-landing-hoax-theory-started-as-a-joke-5a8e66e15d56


https://web.archive.org/web/20130128101904/http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm



Plait, Philip C. Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing 'Hoax'. Wiley, New York, 2002.


https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20100413-apollo15-LRRR.html


https://www.thehistoryreader.com/military-history/much-stalin-know/


https://theconversation.com/how-moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-began-and-why-they-persist-today-118643


Fisher, Mark. Capitalist Realism: Is there no Alternative? John Hunt Publishing, Lanham, 2009



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