One Small Step, One Giant Conspiracy?

Forty-two years ago today, man landed on the moon.  

By David Trawin

 . . . Or did he?

According to a Gallup poll taken on the 40th anniversary of the landing, 6% of Americans believe the moon landing to have been fake.

The footage of the landing is highly suspicious, they maintain: the lighting is off, the flag is too rigid, the stars are absent, and the image quality is too high to have been taken in space.

All these details prove that the whole thing was staged by NASA, filmed on a sound stage, and possibly directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Did I mention it was produced by Walt Disney?

Moon hoax skeptics have kept busy these past four decades, disseminating their creative conspiracy theories through documentaries, TV spots, secret societies, and, of course, books.

Get acquainted with the genre below: 

• Read the book that started it all: We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle by Bill Kaysing.
• Confused? Blogger Darryl Cunningham explains The Moon Hoax in comic format.  
• A skeptic yourself?  Join the The Flat Earth Society and associate with like-minded conspiracists. 
• Watch the documentary A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon, then see Buzz Aldrin give Bart Sibrel, the film's maker, quite the warm welcome: