My brother-in-law swore the moon landing was faked until I showed him one thing online
My brother-in-law has been going off about the moon landing being shot in a studio for about 2 months now, so one night I sat him down with two tabs open on my laptop. First tab was a 40 minute YouTube video from some guy claiming the shadows prove it was fake, second tab was the actual NASA photo archive with the raw images and mission logs. He sat there quiet for maybe 10 minutes and said 'why didn't anyone show me this stuff.' The archive pages had the exact camera settings and timestamps for each shot, and the video never even mentioned any of it. That was it, the difference was primary source docs versus a guy talking over stock footage. So for folks who have argued someone out of one of these, what source actually moved the needle for them?
That move with the two tabs was smart, honestly. My uncle went down the same rabbit hole last year and it was the mission logs that got him, not some big debate. It really is just primary sources vs a guy with a mic at the end of the day.