Many Americans believe that the Apollo moon landings were a hoax.

I watched Apollo 17 take off — its launch into space was no hoax. To spend billions to do that much for real, then do the rest only as a mere hoax, makes no sense. If you can get that far, you will go all the way.

If you haven't got your bearings to identify the absurd conspiracies, a heuristic you can use is to ignore anyone who endorses the moon landings hoax claim.

As for bigger jobs, such as curing cancer, we are doing that. A considerable fraction of the people who get cancer live many years, even decades, after treatment. In a few decades, if civilization survives, we will do even better.

The truly difficult jobs, such as cleaning up the inner cities, and ending global heating, are hard because we face human enemies — plutocrats — that profit from keeping these problems going, They might even tell you these problems are hoaxes.

Delayed departure: France will add a tax on airline tickets for the sake of environmental protection, but it is too small to have much effect.

Facebook Launching App That Pays Users for Data on App Usage.

When we see the effects of this, I forecast we will learn that it is no less dangerous than all the other personal data collection.

International humanitarian aid organizations are pervasively given to coercing local people into sex. This targets both the local workers and the people asking for aid.

Tokyo cracked down on public protests by eliminating nearly all public places where people could do anything but walk.