Editing Moon landing conspiracy theories (section)

=== Academic work ===
In 2002, NASA granted $15,000 to James Oberg to write a point-by-point rebuttal of the hoax claims. However, NASA canceled the commission later that year, after complaints that the book would dignify the accusations.<ref name="Fake Moon Flight' Myth 2003, pp. 23, 30">{{cite journal |last=Oberg |first=James |author-link=James Oberg |date=March–April 2003 |title=Lessons of the 'Fake Moon Flight' Myth |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |location=Amherst, NY |publisher=[[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]] |pages=23, 30 |access-date=April 27, 2013 |url=http://www.jamesoberg.com/042003lessonsfake_his.html}} Reprinted in [[Kendrick Frazier|Frazier, Kendrick]] (ed.) (2009). ''Science Under Siege: Defending Science, Exposing Pseudoscience''. Amherst, NY: [[Prometheus Books]]. {{ISBN|978-1591027157}}.</ref> Oberg said that he meant to finish the book.<ref name="Fake Moon Flight' Myth 2003, pp. 23, 30" /><ref>{{Cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2424927.stm| access-date=August 26, 2009| title=Nasa pulls Moon hoax book| date=November 8, 2002| first=David| last=Whitehouse|work=BBC News | location = London}}</ref> In November 2002, [[Peter Jennings]] said that "NASA is going to spend a few thousand dollars trying to prove to some people that the United States did indeed land men on the Moon", and "NASA had been so rattled" that they hired somebody to write a book refuting the conspiracy theorists. Oberg says that belief in the hoax theories is not the fault of the conspiracists, but rather that of teachers and people who should provide information to the public—especially NASA.<ref name="Fake Moon Flight' Myth 2003, pp. 23, 30" />

In 2004, Martin Hendry and Ken Skeldon of the [[University of Glasgow]] were awarded a grant by the UK-based [[Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council]] to investigate Moon landing conspiracy theories.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cafescientifique.org/glasgow1.htm |title=Did we really land on the Moon? |date=February 17, 2005 |last1=Hendry |first1=Martin |last2=Skeldon |first2=Ken |publisher=[[Café Scientifique|Cafescientifique.org]] |access-date=August 26, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805174628/http://www.cafescientifique.org/glasgow1.htm |archive-date=August 5, 2009}}</ref> In November 2004, they gave a lecture at the [[Glasgow Science Centre]] where the top ten claims by conspiracists were individually addressed and refuted.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dimaggio.org/Glasgow/SPST/nov_2004.htm |title=Hoax Busters |date=November 2004 |first=Mario |last=Di Maggio |publisher=Dimaggio.org |access-date=August 26, 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20071012215016/http://dimaggio.org/Glasgow/SPST/nov_2004.htm |archive-date=October 12, 2007}}</ref>