My very best wishes to you for 2007

I came across this ( subject again/and example ) ... and thought of you:

re EXAMPLE:basic principles of proof, refutation, and examining the
foundations ...

http://www.moonmovie.com/moonmovie/default.asp?ID=11

http://www.moonmovie.com/moonmovie/default.asp?ID=8

Q: How could the scientists of the world be fooled?

A: When scientists fail to require independent duplication of such an
outlandish claim after over 30 years have passed, science is degraded
to the status of being just another religion. They claim to have gone
240,000 miles in 1969. However, since 1972 no one has gone more than
400 miles from the Earth. This is a case of the scientists of the
world not doing their jobs and otherwise being caught asleep at the
wheel.

The leading scientists today who say that the Van Allen Radiation Belt
is not lethal (who were generally in preschool at the time of the
first alleged moon landing) do so by the following deduction: "The
Apollo astronauts went through the radiation belt on their way to the
moon and survived, so it must not be lethal." They are, of course,
assuming that the missions were authentic, when, in fact, they were
not. The leading scientists are wrong. Has this ever historically
happened?
 

http://www.moonmovie.com/moonmovie/
 

"I find it questionable whether there is really any need for a
documentary proving that NASA never sent men to the moon. Even if they
had managed to reach the moon alive, it would have been an engineering
miracle for them to have succeeded in leaving the moon's surface and
returning to Earth. Actually, to say it was an engineering 'miracle'
is being too generous. It was an engineering impossibility and it
simply did not happen." - - LEJ Brouwer
 

"I have never used an educational tool with the sheer impact of your
documentary. After watching it in class last Monday, my students
looked like stunned fish. First they were speechless, then they
couldn't stop talking. I am using your film in my college classroom to
teach students basic principles of proof, refutation, and examining
the foundations of their own beliefs. Frankly, I have never had such
an effective teaching tool for thawing intellectual inertia among
students." Doug (CA)
 

From this editor
Point to ponder for new year 2007 ...
What is truth ... can we know anything? If we can ... how do we know?

Sometime ago I realized/concluded ... yes ...we can know many things,
but we know different things to different degrees of certainty ...
for example, how do you know who are your parents/children/who really
cares for you?

Best wishes for 2007

David