{"id":1092,"date":"2009-07-14T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T10:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2009-07-14T06:42:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T10:42:14","slug":"man-set-foot-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"Man set foot on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least that is what the New York Times wants you to believe<\/a>. \ud83d\ude09 I love it when there is a Florida tie.<\/p>\n

Mark Fenster, a professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law who has written extensively on conspiracy theories, said he sees similarities between people who argue that the Moon landings never happened and those who insist that the 9\/11 attacks were planned by the government and that President Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birth certificate is fake: at the core, he said, is a polarization so profound that people end up with an unshakable belief that those in power \u00e2\u20ac\u0153simply can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be trusted.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here is why groups like Florida Citizens for Science exist:<\/p>\n

Harrison Schmitt, the pilot of the lunar lander during the last Apollo mission and later a United States senator, said in an interview that the poor state of the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s schools has had predictable results. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If people decide they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to deny the facts of history and the facts of science and technology, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not much you can do with them,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For most of them, I just feel sorry that we failed in their education.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least that is what the New York Times wants you to believe. \ud83d\ude09 I love it when there is a Florida tie. Mark Fenster, a professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law who has written extensively … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-hC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":195,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=195","url_meta":{"origin":1092,"position":0},"title":"The Great Moonbuggy Race","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Citizens for Science extends a hearty \"good job\" to the students and teachers of Williston High School who participated in the\u00c2\u00a014th annual Great Moonbuggy Race. 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