The Buzz Aldrin Fallacy

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Several years ago when I was a philosophy grad student at Purdue, Buzz Aldrin came and gave a talk on Purdue’s campus. I thought going to a talk given by the second person to walk on the moon sounded like a pretty cool idea, so I went.

I learned only later from some friends working in physics and engineering that Buzz Aldrin is a rather controversial figure, and that there’s a saying that while you couldn’t get Neil…