Some people, it seems, actively work against intelligence. They're not just stubbornly overlooking the obvious.
I think I would put Dave Cosnette in that category. I urge you to put on a pot of coffee, go back to the original threads in which we discussed Dave's web site, and try not to throw things.
At one point Dave demanded to see evidence that terrain could produce shadow variations as seen in the 16mm DAC footage. I produced a series of photographs showing the phenomenon, as well as how to produce the effect oneself. I also provided photographs to show that David Percy's explanation actually produces the opposite results. Dave looked right at the page and said it proved absolutely nothing. That kind of denial takes either a mind fairly disconnected from reality, or fairly connected to the realities of lying for fun and profit.
So I am presently quite astounded to learn that there are people stupid enough to a) claim that the Apollo landings were hoaxed, and b) claim that the Apollo data are evidence of aliens on the Moon.
Well, there are people so literally disconnected from structured and useful thought that they simply don't see this as contradictory. Remember, most of them have a particularly anti-government bias, so anything that seems to portray the government in a bad light is "all good".
He's one of those people who is simply impervious to logic. Normally a logical discourse or debate ends with one person either seeing or admitting the error of his ways, or at worst agreeing to disagree on some key premise. Dave Cosnette is one of those people who is so illogical that he simply can't participate in a discourse with rational people. They run screaming from the room in frustration. He is literally someone who would point to a white horse and say, "That horse is black."
It doesn't matter whether he's knowingly lying or simply deluded to the point of psychosis. You can't have an intelligent conversation with him. It is particularly sad since he seems to want to be taken seriously in the mainstream.
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