The Ghost of Paley
Posts: 1703 Joined: Oct. 2005
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Quote | Clearly you can believe whatever you want to believe. As long as you are willing to disregard any facts that disagree with you.
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Well, on that subject, here are some more sites that fill out the picture: Pro Hoax More Pro Hoax Anti Hoax Forum Two problems with antihoax sites: 1)The Problem of Consilience of Inductions In deciding between two hypotheses, one should usually choose the one that unifies more observations and relies less on post hoc rationales to explain phenomena. In other words, the hypothesis should do most of the explanatory work, and incorporate as little into its predictive bundle as possible. This is not met with the antihoax community, as their rationalizations range from short camera exposures, unique lunar soil characteristics, the vacuum, pranking astro-naughts, miscommunication, and hairs on lenses to account for anomalities. The prohoax community can unify all "problems" under one rubric: a manufactured moonwalk.
2) Changing, mutually-contradictory explanations. For example, the author claims that the reason that no flame was seen from the departing lander was due to the lack of air in the lunar environment. Then he says, whoops, that's a minor effect. It's really the fuel. In each case, he shows supreme confidence in his answer. But since he rarely quantifies anything (e.g. how much torque would one need to create the flag ripples we see?), one can only shrug one's shoulders and comment that his whole treatise is written in jello.
There is are cathedrals of doubt hidden behind Phil Plait's quaint, complacent Potemkin Village.
-------------- Dey can't 'andle my riddim.
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