Learning about quality factors and the difference between rads and rems is not bad for two weeks' work and a 12th grade education. You're already several steps ahead of most conspiracy theorists.
Just consider this. The people who implemented Apollo, and who study it (and occasionally defend it) today are eminent scientists, engineers, physcists and other well-qualified people. The people who are attacking Apollo are generally self-appointed, self-educated people trying to make a buck. Just consider whether it's possible that all that combined expertise in the pro-Apollo camp knows a lot more about these subjects than the largely self-taught folks in the hoax camp.
The hoaxsters want you to think it's a matter of belief: i.e., can you trust the "big bad government" and its "disinformationist debunkers"? Instead it's a matter of knowledge and understanding. The conspiracy theorists don't want the discussion to be about actual science and fact because they know they can't compete. But you don't have to believe the paranoid hype. Just look at who has the facts.
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