Jarrah White

Jarrah White is an Australian conspiracy theorist known mostly for his long-running series of YouTube videos claiming that the Moon landings were hoaxed. In addition to the MoonFaker videos, he also maintains a website with the same name, and his beliefs about the hoax have led him to a few confrontations with notable skeptics on and off the Internet. He likes to style himself "Grandson of the Apollo Moon Hoax Theory".
==Beliefs and methods==
Most of White's "evidence" appears to be borrowed from earlier conspiracy theorists, notably Ralph René, with whom White claims to have become friends prior to René's death. White has reproduced many of René's calculations and theories in his own videos, perpetuating basic errors attributable to René's lack of understanding of basic mathematical and scientific concepts.
==Credentials and background==
According to the biography on White's website, he "holds Certificate III & IV with distinctions in Screen (a Film & TV course) at Sydney Institute of TAFE", which would explain why his videos have better production values than the average webcam-shot YouTube dreck. He also claims to have a BSc in astrophysics, as if that makes him more qualified than the literally thousands of people with MSc's or doctorates who say he's full of crap.
He has been posting YouTube videos in his "Moonfaker" series since 2007, but the earliest record of his Apollo obsession on the world wide web dates back to 2003, when he was an active member (later banned) of The Technodrome,Turtles on The Moon?, thread started by Jarrah White on 6 November 2004. a discussion board dedicated to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
==Business activities==
White accepts donations via his Moonfaker website.Moonfaker donations, moonfaker.com. He also runs a "Paypal fundraise"[sic] entitled Fly Jarrah to the Moon,Fly Jarrah to the Moon, moonfaker.com. in which he "encourages propagandists and everyone who believes in Apollo to raise $500,000 to pay for himself and an accompanying believer to take this proposed tourist flight". 
White has also apparently taken over the sales side of the late Ralph René's website. For example, a 12-page pamphlet explaining that pi is equal to 3.146264Gaddy's Pi, ralphrene.com. is available for $14 by emailing Jarrah White.
==Moonfaker.com==
White presents a long list of Frequently Asked Questions on his website that are intended to supplement his videos; however, these suggest either a basic lack of knowledge about space flight and celestial observations or a series of irrelevant red herrings.Frequently Asked Questions, moonfaker.com.
A few examples follow:
Here, White decides to address a very specific aspect of a claim made, not by NASA, but by someone on the internet. Faced with the incontrovertible fact that radio operators unconnected to NASA did pick up Apollo signals at various points during the mission, White instead frames the issue as being about independent observersThe definition of "independent" is also vague. White insists that the only "real" independent observers were those working at places without any kind of affiliation with NASA, discounting, for instance, the local non-NASA personnel on the because the station was NASA owned. Why such local would help keep protect the conspiracy for decades afterwards is anyone's guess. tracking Apollo all the way to the moon. This, however, is a red herring as it would be impossible for any one individual to track the Apollo craft all the way from the Earth to the moon, something which White, oddly enough mentions himself. The journey took approximately three days, during which time the moon would be below the horizon for great lengths of time for an observer in any given location on Earth. Hence the need for the (DSN) and (MSFN) of receiving stations around the world to maintain constant contact.
To illustrate the problem, imagine that Carl has driven his car from point X to point Z. Due to a hill obscuring the view at point Y along the route, however, Alice has only seen Carl somewhere between X and Y, while Bob has seen Carl only between Y and Z. White is essentially claiming that because neither Alice nor Bob have seen Carl driving the entire X to Z distance we should believe that Carl didn't drive at all, and probably doesn't have either a car or a driver's licence.
Not only is White constructing a red herring, but by framing the "Q" in this very specific way, he's setting up a straw man and a false dilemma for his "A": The intermittent signals picked up at various points along the moon journey confirm NASA's own tracking, and the demand for a complete independent tracking service is simply irrelevant and unreasonable. A series of point observations, even if intermittent, work just fine, Jarrah's false dilemma of either an independent observer tracking Apollo all the way, or "NASA must/could have faked it", notwithstanding.
This is categorically untrue, as attested to by Dr Van Allen himself: "The recent Fox TV show, which I saw, is an ingenious and entertaining assemblage of nonsense. The claim that radiation exposure during the Apollo missions would have been fatal to the astronauts is only one example of such nonsense."
==Anti-"Flattard" and pro-NASA beliefs==
Although White firmly believes that mankind did not travel to and land on the moon, he does believe that mankind has travelled into space. This belief has put him at odds with Flat Earth conspiracy theorists who believe him to be either ignorant or a shill for NASA to which White responds with a large rant containing links to his evidence that show that the Earth is indeed spherical and that NASA are not faking space footage.Jarrah White's response to Flat Earthers and Space Travel Deniers. Jarrah White, YouTube, 10 December 2015. Because he has done this to a very large degree throughout his YouTube career he has affectionately referred to these viewers as Space Travel Deniers and Flattards.
==External links==
*Jarrah White's website
*Jarrah's YouTube channel
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Category:Moon