I conversed with Ted briefly via e-mail last week. I introduced myself as the Clavius webmaster, whereupon he promptly made the standard complaint that I was trying to discredit what I couldn't explain or deal with.
I brought up first the fact that The Viral Factory admitted to making his "outtake" film and explained how they did it. He argued in response that the appearance of the outtake film was too similar (e.g., terrain) to authentic Apollo footage to be so easily dismissed. In other words, he completely side-stepped the evidence I presented, even when I posted links to the archived whistle-blowing web page and the current contact information for the company.
In the same message he brought up again the "stringer" argument. I pointed out, as had others, that he was trying to compare one side of the ladder to the other, and that the feature in question had been conclusively identified as the carrier for the flag assembly, not a structural element. I also emphasized that LM-2 and LM-5 are not expected to be identical, as he wrongly supposed, and that contrary to popular belief there were three design evolutions to the LM and countless individual modifications that means you can compare LM items only after having done copious homework.
In his second message he completely ignored that statement and instead changed the subject again. He handwaved about an alleged communication blackout that "isn't on the internet," and pointed me to some backwater paranormal-themed podcast for which he had been interviewed, as evidence. (I went to podcast's website but did not see his interview in their archives.)
When I asked him for closure on my previous two points, he stopped answering.
In my opinion it's likely Ted Twietmeyer knows that he can't stand up against reasoned criticism and that he's simply not going to let the facts stand in the way of a good story and his 15 minutes of fame in telling it.
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