To the moon, Alice!

[Pirate Bill]

Originally Posted by Alex

Phil Plait of the Bad Astronomy blog (and long time battler of the moon hoax believers)...

Penn Jillette used to have a radio show and would podcast the episodes. During one episode (actually I think it stretched to two) he had Phil Plait on to help debunk Joe Rogan and his conspiracy theories of the moon hoax. From listening to that debate I learned 2 things: 1) Rogan is a lunatic, and 2) these moon hoax believers cannot be convinced, because they don't appear to be looking for actual truth. Like you guys said above, they must have some other agenda.

Everytime Plait gave a great rebuttal to some of the "evidence" Rogan presented, Rogan would start throwing out even more absurd questions and myths. And in true Joe "I can't shut-up for 10 seconds" Rogan fashion, never really gave Plait much time to complete a thought. This gave the appearance of Rogan having more ammunition and "proof" than Plait and it almost seemed like the moon hoax theory had some validity. Penn didn't know what to make of it. He was hoping to shut Rogan up for good but his efforts seemed to be back firing with Rogan winning the debate.