Ah, the old moon landing hoax theory. This is an example of modern disestablishmentarian superstition. It is intuitively very easy to "feel" it in your gut that the moon landings were faked, because, after all, the moon is way out there, and we're way down here. Never mind that the orbits and landings actually happened and the evidence to prove them is overwhelming; these mystics don't trust the government people involved, and so they don't trust the evidence either. And to support what they believe, as well as ostensibly refute the fake evidence on scientific grounds, it is easy enough for them to concoct some evidence by misinterpreting whatever facts so as to arrive at a scientific-looking argument on behalf of their position. The Intelligent Design crew is very good at doing the same thing. You take some distrust of the establishment, some false intuition, some specious reasoning, and some bogus analysis, and voila! The moon landings were a fake. Duh.
Unfortunately, there isn't much that can be done short of extraordinary measures that'll convert these people into the truth. As the Christian historical apologist Daniel Krispin so well typified, if you believe the sun is a lie, and you don't trust what you see in the sky, then there's not much that'll change your mind. And so we must content ourselves with knowing that these Luna-tic skeptics are a fringe bunch with no real power to destroy civilization as we know it. They themselves are a lost cause, and lost causes are not worth a dime. Come now, Compendium. We needn't give such rubbish claptrap so much as a second thought. Pity that there's a whole thread devoted to it now.
