Most retarded idiots if they even exist because the phrase is so demeaning would not even understand the question.
But believe me - I do understand your anger. My father was one of the many who invested their time and intelligence to make it happen... To sniff at all these hard working intelligent people and doubt their integrity infuriates me as well... I just keep tamping it down and try to understand ignorance if that can be obtained.
If I was more invested in the project I probably couldn’t.
I specifically used the phrase because it is not politically correct and is in the sphere of cultural understanding at that time.
I do have some first hand knowledge of the moon shot. My Dad worked for GE at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama as a computer programmer on the parts inventory for the Saturn Rocket. At that time it was the largest program ever written. I have the vivid memory of living ten miles away from the Redstone Arsenal/Marshall Space Flight Center and hearing the thunderous roar and the ground shaking for several minutes as they static tested the first booster engine. In 1980 I experienced a 7.0 earthquake and I am a witness that nature didn't come close to a tied down Saturn Rocket Engine shaking the Earth.
I was with my family at the Marshall Space Flight Center Museum when a voice came across the PA system, saying that the first raw film of Ed White's spacewalk had just arrived. I was privileged to be one of the first people on Earth to crowd into the little theater to watch that film and see the wayward glove float out of the hatch.
Any conspiracy to fake the whole moon shot would have required a myriad of people to keep a secret. I pity any fool that could believe that possible.