I know educated, well credentialed, modern folks who believe we never actually landed on the moon and 9/11 was an inside job. You don’t have to be poor and dumb to believe stupid things.
The route to accepting a 9/11 "controlled demolition," for otherwise reasonable folks, comes from disbelief that two 110 story buildings could fall essentially straight down without the help of demolition expertise. I know I expected one or both to eventually sag and fall to the side, at least the portions above the jet strike and fire, greatly magnifying the damage beyond the WTC. I think the attackers did, too. It was a quirk of the structural design, with the ballon frame and central "core," that spared New York City much greater damage. The whole thing looked very "Hollywood," surreal, too, which no doubt added to the paranoid speculation. When the unthinkable happens, fanciful explanations don't sound any less plausible than realistic ones, to some.
I can almost understand the folks who think we didn't go to the moon. The problem is at least partially NASA's fault because some of the shots they broadcast/published were shot on a stage, because there was political propaganda value in doing so. I got into some of the inconsistancies a long time ago, and found it to be intereststing, but ultimately of little use other than further confirmation that our government is staffed largely by people who, in a sane world, would not be allowed to do anything more complex than dig ditches.
As an example of exactly how dumb-as-a-post even some of our 'rocket scientists' are, consider the following: Most of the footage shot on the moon was not shot using standard video tech of the day. They had what was essentially high-def cameras. The signal that was broadcast back to earth had to be converted (downgraded) from its native format to a broadcast-quality signal.
After the lunar missions all the original high-quality footage (a hundred or so hours of footage IIRC) were simply stored in a warehouse somewhere. It was never copied for later archival and study. Keep in mind that our missions to the moon was basically the high-point of American achievement. Our voyages to the moon were quite arguably one of the most important events of the 20th century, yet no one at NASA ever thought to make the films available to the public. They never converted the signals into digital copies so they could be protected from the effects of time.They were never converted to Beta, VHS, or DVD.
In fact, they just lost them.
Yes, that's right. Our government is so incompetent that they simply lost some of the most important film ever taken by man.
It is exactly this kind of incompetence (and I'd argure malfeasance) that fuels conspiracy theorists.