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    13% = ~4.2mill Americans think it’s fake and it is highly likely everyone reading this thread has met someone who believes it’s fake.

    I swear to christ our #1 export in the US is tinfoil hats.

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      Well, someone who believes it was faked is crediting his side with that 13%. You’re gonna trust the numbers of someone who thinks the moon landing was faked?

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      181 month ago

      I know someone working in a pharmaceutical lab that believed climate change was fake because the atmosphere on Mars was mostly CO2 and it wasn’t hot there.

      God save us from the kakistocracy.

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          You’d be surprised how conspiratorial scientists are - especially if it’s outside their domain.

          You’d think more deference to experts would be the default mode… just because I took one physics class does not make me an expert on climatology or the green house effect

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      Couldnt he percentage just be false?

      Also, where did you get the 4.2 million US citizens from? Im pretty sure 13% is much higher

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        I’m an idiot. I put it as .013 because my brain clocked it at a far more reasonable rate.

        It’s actually 42,900,000 which is way worse 🫠

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      Iirc that’s also the percentage of Americans who are functionally illiterate

      Looked it up, it’s worse.

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      I think it doesn’t actually matter whether it happened, but whether the technology to do it existed at that time. And they surely did.

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        To build on this: The technology to fake it didn’t exist back then.