Oh, I would totally believe it too.

Tangent: this has to be the showstopper among showstoppers for 99.9% of “faked Moon landing” conspiracies. The rivalry between the US and USSR surely wasn’t the most bitter in history, but it had to – by sheer scope and depth – be the most underhanded and paranoid one. It’s why it takes a debilitating ignorance of 20th century geopolitics to believe a faked Moon landing was possible: the US would’ve been skewered by the USSR with a mountain of receipts. This wasn’t just a boast for the US; it was seen as a major counterblow to the USSR’s record of spacefaring firsts.

Nothing short of direct observation could’ve bridged the ocean of distrust, and the USSR – with a world-class space program – clearly had that using radio signals; there was no way to trick them. Even if the US could somehow bribe the USSR through some impossibly gargantuan backdoor deal, it would’ve meant jack shit, because every other country with a developed space program would’ve done the same thing. About the only 0.1% of conspiracies that aren’t shattered by a bare minimum understanding of the Cold War would have to be psychotic, unfalsifiable nonsense by people too detached from reality to be reasoned with, like the Cold War secretly being puppeteered by aliens or something.