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  • 2016-03-31 (xsd:date)
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  • Ron Howard Didn't Say That the 1969 Moon Landing Was Fake (en)
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  • On 26 March 2016, a video attempting to prove that the 1969 moon landing was a hoax was uploaded to YouTube by RussianVids. The main piece of evidence from this video is a clip from a season four episode of Arrested Development entitled The B. Team featuring actors Ron Howard and Jason Bateman. The narrator of the conspiracy theory acknowledges that the footage he is using comes from a scripted television show, but adds that Ron Howard is purposefully mixing truth with lies in order to convince the sheep that man has never been to the moon. The logic appears to go like this: Ron Howard lies about the 1971 moon landing being real in order to gain the interest of the sheep. Once they are paying attention, he tells the truth about the 1969 moon landing (i.e. that it was a hoax). Why Ron Howard chose to insert this information into an episode of Arrested Development is not explained. While moon landing conspiracy theorists have used a wide range of sources in an attempt to prove that the 1969 moon landing was a hoax, the choice to include Ron Howard is exceptionally odd due to the director's affinity for astronauts, NASA, and space travel. In addition to directing Apollo 13, Ron Howard was also involved with a documentary about the Apollo missions called In the Shadow of the Moon. That documentary ended with several Apollo of astronauts addressing claims that the moon landings were faked: Previously, conspiracy theorists uncovered long-lost evidence of Stanley Kubrick admitting that he had helped fake the moon landings (which later turned out, unsurprisingly, to be a hoax). (en)
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