“The Adventure of the Perforated Windowpane,” if I remember correctly.
he’s just telling tall tales
He should really change his tune
good advice, thank you.
The school is in North West Indiana. I obviously won’t give out the name or Prof. but it is an acredited university and I’m attending there for my full 4 year degree.
This isn’t the first case of a person believing the impossible before. Alot of my friends believe in ghosts and flying spirits. Most of that group also believes that 9/11 is a GIGANTIC conspiracy soley based on Loose Change. Alot of them also believe that JFK was not killed with one bullet even when I point out their incorrect assumptions about the position of the governor in relation to JFK and how the shot has been duplicated on the Discovery channel many times.
I have family that believe the government is out to get them EVERY day of their lives, were dead set that Bill Clinton would use his evil power to stay in office forever, and a few others that I know secretly believe taking up arms against the government isn’t such a bad idea. Some racists, some loons, some out and out crazies.
Maybe I attract these kind of people…
Here is is in full.Amazon
“I took maths in college” …maybe he shoulda taken englishes too
I mean, it is like the Kennedy Assassination-lots of smoke but no fire. I think the answer is, people think that the government lies to them-which is true upon occasion-think Iraq Invasion But why would the government spend so muc time and money on such an elaborate hoax? Of course, if something will sell books, it will be printed.
[paraphrasing Tony Montana]
Djew been hangin’ 'round the wrong kinda piple, main.[/paraphrasing]
Wow, they made cows big back then. And mean!
Having been to the Natural History Museum I’d have to say…that would be one big assed cow. Woofa!
(My own in-laws and even some of my family think the whole ‘dinosaur’ thingy is a big hoax…it’s ‘scientists’ burying FAKE bones in the ground. Why? No idea…but them’s the facts)
-XT
For the record and as an aside, that would be the way it would be said on this side of the ocean, so it’s not a mistake on the reviewers part. The american ‘I took a class in math’ sounds appalling to me for reference.
As to the main event of this thread the bad astronomer link early in the thread is a good one.
Ah, well, it’s worth a click, just to see Aleister Crowley, Buzz Aldrin, Adolf Hitler, Walt Disney and L. Ron Hubbard mentioned in the same sentence with serious intent! 
One more reason to hate Notre Dame. Like we really needed another…
lol, I don’t like em either and I couldn’t afford to go there if I tried
Isn’t this all we really need to know about Hoagland?
“We landed on the Moon,
Your Professor is a loon,
He needs good meds,
And a nice soft bed,
Not a full classroom.”
Yes, I am occasionally inspired by Futurama.
I was thinking the same thing, but don’t you guys call college ‘uni’?
I’ve encountered a few of the folks who think the moon landings were faked. I know there’s nothing anyone can do to make them think otherwise. So I always ask the following question, just in case there’s the teeniest, tiniest chance they could have their minds changed.
“Do you really believe that a government agency could keep a secret that big, involving so many people, for so many years, without at least one person squealing on them?”
Why not? It’s a public school, paid for by our tax dollars. He is a public servant, also paid for by our tax dollars. However, it would be better if you could link us to a website or something where he has made these claims in public.
That was my first thought.
Not a bad idea; take a well-known crack-pot theory [is there a better phrase than that?], and force the students to refute it.
The problem with this is that the CT’s then will talk about things like the number astronauts who have died from cancer at relatively young ages, and use that as evidence that they, and any other ‘early’ deaths, were actually assassinations to keep the secret. Because, of course, conspiracies are all-powerful, omnipresent and inerrant.
So, follow up that answer with this question: “If you believe all that, why are you broadcasting that, where the conspiracy will hear you?”
You may not change their minds about anything. But you might get them to shut the Hell up.
Oh, I like that! I’d not thought of it that way, but you’re right on the mark.