Moon landing conspiracy theories
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There are subcultures worldwide which advocate the belief that the Moon landings were faked. By 1977 the [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness|Hare Krishna]] magazine ''[[Back to Godhead]]'' called the landings a hoax, claiming that, since the [[Sun]] is {{convert|93|e6mi|abbr=unit|order=flip}} away, and "according to [[Hindu mythology]] the Moon is {{convert|800,000|mi|disp=sqbr}} farther away than that", the Moon would be nearly {{convert|94|e6mi|abbr=unit|order=out}} away; to travel that span in 91 hours would require a speed of more than a million miles per hour, "a patently impossible feat even by the scientists' calculations."{{cite journal |author=Satsvarūpa dāsa Goswami |author-link=Satsvarupa dasa Goswami |date=May 1977 |title=Man on the Moon: A Case of Mass Brainwashing |url=http://back2godhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/123_1977_12-05.pdf |journal=[[Back to Godhead]] |location=Los Angeles |publisher=[[Bhaktivedanta Book Trust]] |volume=12 |issue=5 |pages=10–11, 13–14 |issn=0005-3643 |access-date=October 9, 2013}}[[#Scheaffer|Scheaffer 2011]], p. 229 |
There are subcultures worldwide which advocate the belief that the Moon landings were faked. By 1977 the [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness|Hare Krishna]] magazine ''[[Back to Godhead]]'' called the landings a hoax, claiming that, since the [[Sun]] is {{convert|93|e6mi|abbr=unit|order=flip}} away, and "according to [[Hindu mythology]] the Moon is {{convert|800,000|mi|disp=sqbr}} farther away than that", the Moon would be nearly {{convert|94|e6mi|abbr=unit|order=out}} away; to travel that span in 91 hours would require a speed of more than a million miles per hour, "a patently impossible feat even by the scientists' calculations."{{cite journal |author=Satsvarūpa dāsa Goswami |author-link=Satsvarupa dasa Goswami |date=May 1977 |title=Man on the Moon: A Case of Mass Brainwashing |url=http://back2godhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/123_1977_12-05.pdf |journal=[[Back to Godhead]] |location=Los Angeles |publisher=[[Bhaktivedanta Book Trust]] |volume=12 |issue=5 |pages=10–11, 13–14 |issn=0005-3643 |access-date=October 9, 2013}}[[#Scheaffer|Scheaffer 2011]], p. 229 |
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[[James Oberg]] of [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] said that the conspiracy theory is taught in many Cuban schools, both in Cuba and where Cuban teachers are loaned.{{cite news |title=Getting Apollo 11 Right |first=James |last=Oberg |author-link=James Oberg |url=https://abcnews.go.com/ABC2000/abc2000science/oberg2000.html |access-date=August 13, 2009 |work=ABC News |publisher=ABC |location=New York |date=July 1999|quote=I'm told that this is official dogma still taught in schools in Cuba, plus wherever else Cuban teachers have been sent (such as [[Sandinista]] Nicaragua and Angola). |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030402094521/https://abcnews.go.com/ABC2000/abc2000science/oberg2000.html |archive-date=April 2, 2003}} A poll conducted in the 1970s by the [[United States Information Agency]] in several countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa found that most respondents were unaware of the Moon landings, many of the others dismissed them as propaganda or science fiction, and many thought that it had been the Russians |
[[James Oberg]] of [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] said that the conspiracy theory is taught in many Cuban schools, both in Cuba and where Cuban teachers are loaned.{{cite news |title=Getting Apollo 11 Right |first=James |last=Oberg |author-link=James Oberg |url=https://abcnews.go.com/ABC2000/abc2000science/oberg2000.html |access-date=August 13, 2009 |work=ABC News |publisher=ABC |location=New York |date=July 1999|quote=I'm told that this is official dogma still taught in schools in Cuba, plus wherever else Cuban teachers have been sent (such as [[Sandinista]] Nicaragua and Angola). |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030402094521/https://abcnews.go.com/ABC2000/abc2000science/oberg2000.html |archive-date=April 2, 2003}} A poll conducted in the 1970s by the [[United States Information Agency]] in several countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa found that most respondents were unaware of the Moon landings, many of the others dismissed them as propaganda or science fiction, and many thought that it had been the Russians who had landed on the Moon.[[#Oberg|Oberg 1982]], p. 97 |
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In 2019, [[Ipsos]] conducted a study for [[C-SPAN]] to assess the level of belief that the 1969 Moon landing was faked. Six percent of respondents believed it was not real, but eleven percent of [[millennial]]s (reached adulthood in the early 21st century) were the most likely to believe it was not factual.{{cite news |url=https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2019-07/c-span-space-exploration-07-10-2019_for_release.pdf |title=Attitudes Toward Space Exploration – Ipsos Poll on Behalf of C-SPAN – Belief in Authenticity of the 1969 Moon Landing |work=[[C-Span]] |date=July 10, 2019 |access-date=July 21, 2019}} |
In 2019, [[Ipsos]] conducted a study for [[C-SPAN]] to assess the level of belief that the 1969 Moon landing was faked. Six percent of respondents believed it was not real, but eleven percent of [[millennial]]s (reached adulthood in the early 21st century) were the most likely to believe it was not factual.{{cite news |url=https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2019-07/c-span-space-exploration-07-10-2019_for_release.pdf |title=Attitudes Toward Space Exploration – Ipsos Poll on Behalf of C-SPAN – Belief in Authenticity of the 1969 Moon Landing |work=[[C-Span]] |date=July 10, 2019 |access-date=July 21, 2019}} |
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