They are very serious.
This is their view—you might actually learn something from scientists who are not on the .gov payroll—or who do not receive .gov grants.
They are deluded idiots.
The live TV from Apollo 12 was nonexistent, because the astronauts accidentally pointed their TV camera at the sun and burned it out minutes after the moonwalk started
Now, I may have only been nine years old, but I remember that distinctly. IT HAPPENED. I saw it and remember it. No, you aren't going to convince me that I imagined it.
If the landings were faked on a sound stage, how do you explain that? What, Hollywood ran out of cameras? Obviously there's no "sun" indoors on a soundstage at 20th Century Fox.
There's no explanation except the paranoid "dog ate my homework" explanation that "that's all part of the conspiracy," is there?