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In article <4586@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
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>    Well  ,  it  sounds  like the willingness to cling to some kind of la-la
>   land belief that our  government  wouldn't  lie  to  us  about  the  moon
>   landings

I'm perfectly willing to believe that the government has lied to us,
but I prefer to believe it in the face of hard evidence rather than
the ravings of a lone crackpot.

For instance:

    The government lied to us when it said that George Bush was
    unsupportive of the idea of arms for hostages or ignorant
    of the effort to sell arms to Iran for the release of
    hostages in Lebanon.

vs.

    The moon is four times as dense as our terrestrial calculations
    and measurements suggest, because the government lied to us
    about its verifying data collected during the alleged missions
    to the moon.

I believe the former, because the evidence exists and is supported
by members of the government itself.  I do not believe the latter,
because there is no evidence to support the claim, and because it
comes from a person who previously misinterpreted Ohm's law to the
point that it assisted him in mis-deriving a theory of travelling at
speeds faster than light.

				--Blair
				  "Makes this God stuff look simple."