What you may think you may know about the VAB data are not trustworthy. The data have been cooked and seeded with disinformation to keep people like us from questioning the claims about the Apollo missions. Clever try with the first-year engineering student insult. I also never said or assumed lead was the only effective shielding.
The "VAB hoaxer issue" as you call it, has not seen one living creature transit the VABs under a NASA or foreign coutry's space administration since 1972, thus, essentially for the last 50 years. Why is that? If we were to for a moment set aside NASA's Apollo mission astronauts, zero living creatures have transited the VABs in a NASA, Russian, Chinese or Japanese program in the history of the world! So it has not been debunked. Somehow, it was only doable prior to handing it over as a Muslim outreach, for that little window of time, when the mock-up set was available for photo shoots and filming.
NASA speaks of its Orion project as if they're years away from being able to send up a human in that. Why would that be after 30 grand Apollo successes?
Time fails, but another manifestation of the hoax a priori was the Apollo I episode of the all-too-openly-doubting Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffe and Ed White.
But we can consider one aspect that reliably exposes that Apollo was an absolute hoax. For that we can go to the astronauts' Portable Life Support Systems (PLSS), their space suits and attached backpack. Their design uses a pretty predictable, Earth-style air conditioning system. In the vacuum of space, however, there is no venting and recapturing of any heated-then-cooled liquid. There is no appreciable amount of cooler atmosphere or liquid available to radiate to and dissipate the heat buildup within the PLSS. The moon's atmosphere's moisture content is roughly comparable to Earth's at 190K'. Standing in 200-250F sunlight would make the astronauts pass out in a few minutes and see their blood boil in ten-fifteen minutes, killing them, of course. "Steam vent[ing]" as the PLSS manual depicts (attached picture) doesn't recapture cooler liquid in any return.
And by the way, there's no such thing as a negatively-charged particle, a so-called electron, as attested to by Nikola Tesla, James Clerk Maxwell, Oliver Heaviside, and C.P. Steinmetz. Einstein was a fraud (video), as Tesla maintained throughout his life. The particle physics fraud perpetrated on university physics departments gave the government the confidence that they could corrupt science departments as well with their alarmist Global Warming nonsense and then every other department with speech codes and Marxism.
University-based corruption has eviscerated the best minds from doing principled work. Bright, particularly conservative professors have long seen what they must do to keep their jobs and pensions if they wanted to sacrifice their integrities for them. PDJT sees this and backed out of the Paris Accord as a first step of reclaiming the universities. (PDJT's Uncle John Trump, an MIT professor, was charged with collecting and scouring Tesla's reportedly 47 trunks of papers and materials, much of which has never seen the light of public scrutiny.)