For those who don't want to relive the weeks-long odyssey of FatFreddy88's (aka Rocky, DavidC) stint at Apollohoax.net, the "litmus tests" referred to are the demand from Rocky that he would only debate Apollo hoax theories with people who could prove they were not government shills -- by which he meant people who answered favorably to questions such as, "Was 9/11 an inside job?"
This is typical of the kinds of games he plays.
He was banned there in 2007. As of 2010 he still maintains his obsessive personal fixation toward me and spams his misleading and defamatory claims any time Apollo is mentioned.
Rocky/DavidC/FatFreddy88 (not sock puppets, he just uses various names in various places) is also
completely unable to process anything going against his fixed personal obsession that Apollo was hoaxed. This requires him to invent ever more magical means of "faking" things and insist that an ever-expanding pool of persons and organizations are "in on it".
For instance, when it was pointed out that lunar soil kicked up by the LRVs follows perfect parabolic arcs and does not billow as it would on Earth, he invented magic sand that produces no dust whatsoever and is impervious to drag. When it was pointed out that his handwaving about "radiation" - he knows nothing at all about any of the science - was refuted by the experience of ISS astronauts who routinely transit the South Atlantic Anomaly, his response was to deny that the SAA even existed. When pointed out that it is dealt with routinely by spacecraft manufacturers and operators worldwide, and studied by scientists and students in many countries - I gave him a list of over 20 - guess what? Yes, the spacecraft manufacturers (like my company) are in on it. The satellite operators and insurers are in on it. All the students and scientists are in on it.
When pressed on such absurdities, he simply says "we don't know", despite being regularly schooled that the people in question
do know. He simply
cannot deal with the fact that competent people don't agree with his worldview. He can't bring himself to face the direct personal testimony of people like Jay (and myself), who work in this field; hence we must be lying. He can't face the evidence; it must all be faked, even though he can think of no credible way to fake it. He can't even believe that people who disagree with him might really be sincere - hence he said everyone who who was debunking him didn't believe what they were saying. (Rocky, I'm still waiting for you to either back up this claim, or retract it and apologize.)
He's also, ironically for someone so free with accusations of disinformation and mind control and lying, incapable of doing any original thinking for himself. He incontinently cites any hoax site or video he comes across, and endlessly recycles links to his own posts full of links to other sites. But at least, unlike the two resident space-trolls currently active here, he really seems to buy into his belief that Apollo was a hoax - no matter how many knots he has to tie himself into in order to avoid confronting reality.