So where does he think the other STD's came from?
I imagine that, like moon landing and other conspiracy theorists, he was focused solely on the one thing he had a theory on and ignored the similar events that potentially contradicted it.
Yeah, I'd noticed that none of the conspiracy nutjobs ever try to say that Gargarin's flight into orbit was fake. Probably none of them are batshit insane enough to want to piss off the Russians.
In their defense, those theories that I've seen agree that people have been sent to the orbit and that ISS is real etc. They simply refuse to believe that people would have been able to reach the moon with the technology of that time.
I hate that shit so much. I was an eight year old kid, and I stared up at the moon right after watching Armstrong's first lunar walk in July 1969, and I saw the glint of sunlight reflected off of the command vehicle as it orbited the moon. It is still a clear and awesome memory - it made me shiver with excitement, wonderment, and pride.
When I was younger, I used to believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory
I think part of the problem is the documentaries they show. The ones about the moon landings are put together quite well and they
seem to have a lot of scientific evidence. Also the experts on them don't act like complete weirdos, and appear to have valid credentials.