Why do surprisingly many people insist it was faked? It seems like it's basically rooted in a deep mistrust of the government that was maybe warranted in the 60's (what with the CIA testing drugs on unwitting subjects, the environment of the cold war and all) but has stuck around and stayed fashionable until today.
Yeah, I think mistrust has it. Propaganda was exceptionally important during that period, and it translated into military and economic power. I'm skeptical myself because my family tends to work closely with a lot of liars up in government. Conspiracy happens a
lot in governments. One reason I belief them is that some conspiracies fall flat on their face and everyone tends to pick up on it after seeing the epic fail.
The most paranoid people are the ones up in government. People who lie a lot don't believe what others say. Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein, both enemies of the USA were insanely paranoid. And there's a good reason for it too, because the USA is the best in the world at getting their conspiracies working right.. if you can do rocket science, certainly it's easier to plan out a good conspiracy.
It's technically possible that the moon landing is real, but equally possible that it was faked. There's still that big question about where the flag is. My biggest doubt is that they needed to build a massive computers to get planes to drop bombs on the goddamn target a few years before that... how the hell can they do the precision calculations needed to land someone on the moon when they literally can't hit the broad side of a factory with their trajectory calculations? On the other hand, they did invent nukes, and nuclear physics is difficult.
Of course, there's the loads of stupid people out there who don't believe it. Don't bother with them.