Master training of secondary teachers, technology specialists and electronics (all engineers, technicians, engineers or architects). Exercise critical thinking, were we really on the moon? After some time to document and prepare their response, concluded overwhelmingly that. Here I run the script for teacher organized and dedicated the rest of the time trying to get them out of error ... with little success.
The incident left me truly touched spirits. If that engineers think what will be the view of society in general? But we must make a virtue of necessity, some critical the problem: there must be compelling reasons for such confusion.
The ideas that proliferate in the minds of people (with the exception of formally studying) are the winners of a process equivalent to natural selection of genes. This has already raised Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976 no less) and gave them the name of memes these competing ideas to proliferate in our minds. For some reason the lunar conspiracy meme is much more "adaptive" that which corresponds to the reality of history.
Science works in a different way because the reality, through experiments, introduces a very different ecosystem of memes that struggle: only those that are consistent with experimental observations can survive, and among them Occam's razor is the ending of selection.
But the staff does not live in that ecosystem, even professional scientists do if not strictly matters of discipline. The trip to the moon does not seem to be in the curriculum of any of the graduates of the story. But that is what is so attractive Conspiranoids meme?
After much reflection, and although there are probably more reasons adjuvants I dare to state one main reason: the myth of scientific and technological progress continued. Somehow seems to dislike the idea of \u200b\u200bbeing able to go but have not done, never to return. And in the same line is that the computing power of Apollo XI is less than that of any mobile phone today. So, without going into the waving of flags or the parallelism of the shadows and be part of a bias in favor of the conspiracy, and documented (if not great depth or with figures standing in the middle) only serves to perseverance in error.
If this explanation were true, it would be paradoxical just trust in scientific and technological progress was the ultimate cause of the denial of one of its main achievements.
For those who have not seen it yet, the etb have done (well, they did Mimesacojea and @ @ Lagamez ) a great TV show about conspiracy moon. It is also essential book @ EugenioManuel on the subject (see review ) and his blog .
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