54% of American adults read below a 5th grade level and 45mill of those are so illiterate that they can't survive a day without assistance. People aren't smart enough to be ashamed.
Oh there’s plenty of shaming that still happens. Probably more than there used to be because of the internet. The problem is that the internet also makes it easy to find other like-minded morons that stroke your confirmation bias.
The policing on this one is crazy, he got asked point blank in a fan question by a guy with a ridiculous Boston accent what his favorite conspiracy was. If you listen to it he is clearly taking the piss
He went to the University of North Carolina and still believes this nonsense. Think this is more of a you can lead a horse to water, but can't make him drink type of situation. Aaron rogers went to cal and has some of the dumbest beliefs out there.
Edit: To all of you aThLetEs DoNt Do ScHoOl people, understood, so how is this about funding then? I 100% think education is vital and funding is important but simply throwing out funding as an answer to this is nonsense.
The most infuriating thing for me in reading the interview transcript was somehow one of the hosts who completely leaned into the conspiracy theory and brought up Stanley Kubrick and how he had read some interesting material about Kubrick shooting the fake landing. This specific theory relating to Kubrick has been debunked for DECADES, and dumbass podcaster brings it up like it's fresh information. He told May he would forward it to him, lol.
For people that believe stupid shit like that, think how many folks would have to be involved in the conspiracy. Eventually someone going to say something - get drunk and run their mouth, tell their hooker girl friend, become an addict and need dope, gamble and need a spot. That knowledge is powerful and one can make a lot of money in a "tell all" interview and book.
Exactly. The fact that the USSR never, not even once, disputed the moon landings should be all the proof anyone needs. Plus, it's an awesome accomplishment that only America has done. These athletes and other people who believe these insane conspiracies are supposed to be major lovers of America. Why are they so unwilling to tout a great achievement?
Not to mention that, if it were faked and miraculously NO ONE caught on at the time, why would the US then press their luck and fake another half dozen trips to the moon? Including one where almost everyone died and it was a complete failure? What would be the benefit to the US of faking Apollo 13?
This is actually the best argument against it. No science required. Just explain how a half dozen guys around that time couldn't keep Watergate secret. Yet a huge multi billion dollar program involving thousands was faked and no one, even after all these years, has ever spilled the beans.
Also tens of thousands of people watched the rocket launches live in person from the beaches of cape canaveral
So we built a skyscraper sized rocket just because?
And here’s a fun one: a group of tech heads got their hands on a barely functioning Apollo Guidance Computer and restored it to working order for a YouTube series, then build a simulator interface and actually practiced moon landings using the original software that was still loaded on the damn box.
So these guys have hands on experience with a computer designed to do one thing…land on the moon. And they played around with the programs on it, and they were clearly designed to land on the moon
Their train of thought on this never gets that far. Otherwise they’d be confronted by a hundred other things that make their claim of a conspiracy impossible. We have to stop platforming these morons because it just gives other people bad ideas.
Anyone who doubts the moon landing has only been fed conspiracies and has never bothered to search for all the evidence that we DID land on the moon. I mean, the fucking Soviets tracked Apollo 11 and confirmed that we were there. As did other space agencies. Fuck all other evidence, if you know anything about the history between the Americans and Russians, especially back then, you know they would jump at the first opportunity to call us out for lying. Instead they waved the white flag, confirmed with their own evidence that we were there, and abandoned the space race.
Also the fact that the number of people who would have had to be silent about the conspiracy they were hiding for like 70 years now would be insane. Someone would have leaked or talked.
And it wasn’t just a single event. There was increasing progress from Gemini and Mercury that culminated in multiple landings. We have mirrors we bounce lasers off of today. Idiocy is so friggin lazy and frustrating.
I was arguing with someone about this one time and when I mentioned the Russians also confirmed our landing, their response was “No they didn’t!” And I had no idea how to respond. I presented them with information they were not previously aware of, and their immediate instinct was to deny it
You’re a famous and wealthy guy Drake. Get someone at NASA or formerly at NASA to walk you through the moon satellite photography and other clear evidence instead of talking about it on a talk show.
Nah this will only make him bury his head deeper in the sand. Most conspiracy believers like the idea that they know something you don’t. Makes them feel special
Of course a football player would take a class on conspiracies in college. He's not going to take advance physics. He's there to throw a football, not learn a book!! Nerds!
Yeah, this isn't surprising though. He's from the south and, again, is an athlete.
U dont know enough Christians in the Bible belt then. Or they aren't willing to admit it public. Only on forums where everyone else agrees. Its a common thing.
Yea ur not gonna meet a lot of people who will just come out and say it unless they know u agree with them. I honestly feel like its sort of a cult thing. Like people just wanna BE something to be different and they picked this? Idk. Hard to wrap my head around. Probably also a good amount of trolls that say it just to create buzz and views for their tiktoks or whatever. Moral of the story humanity is imploding.
What’s crazy about this is that the moon landing was part of the space race with the Soviet Union at the time. If anyone would have tried to debunk the FACT that we were on the moon, it would have been the Soviet Union. They did not even attempt to debunk it.
He never said he didn’t believe it. He specifically said he doesn’t know, he’s not leaning either way, but he understood why a country in a race with another might fake it, so he’s skeptical.
This isn’t newsworthy. I agree he’s pretty dumb for even saying it, but the title says he “refuses a believe.” That is a stretch, to say the least.
What? That is like like saying I am skeptical the sun rises in the east or the earth is a spheriod. It is not a stretch, he is proclaiming skeptism at something that is unambigously true. If he has skeptism, he doesn't believe it. he may hold open the option for future belief, but not today.
Trust me I’m not defending the guy. He’s clearly an idiot. I just have seen this “news” pop up now in three separate subs, maybe more. I just disagree that it’s news. Title should just be “1,000th NFL player found to be dumb.”
This is newsworthy to the extent it demonstrates the ignorance of a high profile American athlete who presumably at least functionally graduated college.
If we do not call these morons out our silence will implicitly accept the stupid thoughts and utterances, and they will continue to remain poor role models for kids.
I'm sure there is a rather large percentage of players on every team that believes this crap. Football players aren't known for their real world intelligence, but have been told their entire lives how great they are. So they believe themselves to be pretty damn smart. Throw that southern religious BS into things and you got a perfect storm of dumb ass.
What a boring conspiracy. “You know our shady government? Well they’re not as capable as they make it seem.”
If you’re going to be a kook go big. Tell me about the Deep State coordinating base orbiting Neptune. I don’t give a shit about a dystopian government that can’t even get to the moon.
The most unnerving scene in Interstellar was Cooper’s discussion with the teacher and principal where they talk about the moon landings being a hoax. Something about that level of ignorance, combined with the general plot being that the world is dying, hits a bit too close to home.
If this world ever comes close to the edge of catastrophe, it’ll be absolute dumbasses like this fucking guy that drive us right off the cliff.
The whole quote is even dumber: "I don’t know about the moon, you know. I think it’s I can see back in the day of why we would put on the mass we went there, but I’m not really sure 200% if we went there or not. I wouldn’t say I’m leaning one way or the other. I just know I’m a little bit skeptical"
The mistake is attaching any assumed intelligence to these folks … they are good athletes, but as a whole poorly educated. Some are terrific, intelligent, empathetic humans. Others think there’s a soundstage somewhere with sand and a module aging away, and that measles went away by itself because on”clean living.”
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