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Rant: my uncle told me in 2009 that the moon landing hoax stuff was a dead end, and 15 years later I finally see why
Back in 2009 my uncle Rick sat me down at a family BBQ in Toledo and told me to stop wasting my time on moon landing hoax videos. He said the real action was in stuff you could actually check yourself, like who funds the studies and why certain stories get dropped after two days. I ignored him for years because the moon stuff felt bigger and more exciting. Then around 2019 I started keeping a notebook of claims I read online and whether they held up a month later, and wow, most of the flashy ones fell apart while the boring paper trail stuff kept panning out. He was right that the rabbit hole gets deeper when you follow money and timing instead of grainy photos. I still argue with him about other stuff, but on that one he nailed it. Curious if anyone else got steered away from the classic conspiracies toward the more grounded ones, and what made you switch?
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seanlee18d ago
My uncle did the same thing but about JFK, said the lone gunman debate was a treadmill and the real story was who benefited from the Warren Commission rushing it. I started keeping a simple log too, just a spiral notebook, writing down who broke each story and whether they had any skin in the game. The ones tied to a named source with a paper trail tended to survive past a week, and the ones built on "a guy who knows a guy" vanished. Your uncle Rick was pointing you at the boring stuff for a reason, because it actually stays checkable years later instead of just getting more confusing.
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