The FH test flight was a lightning rod, energizing both space lovers and space deniers. I had my own footage of the launch through landing used by at least two conspiracy theorists on YouTube who claim the whole thing was a fake. One of them even claims my footage shows “inconsistencies” with other amateur footage because they don’t understand why the clouds would look different from different angles, or why the sonic booms would arrive at different times from different distances. I think the quality and the quantity of footage that came from that launch upset them so much that it’s made some of them come completely unhinged as they struggle to rationalize it away in order to minimize their cognitive dissonance.
You may be giving them too much credit -- cognitive dissonance implies cognition. ;^)