Check out this CNN.com poll I found recently. 40 Years on and this is how Amer­ica per­ceives the great­est achieve­ment of mankind. I really couldn’t believe this when I saw it. (CNN also ran an arti­cle on the per­sis­tence of the hoax moon land­ing conspiracy.)

14%? REALLY? More than one out of eight people?

If there really is a moon land­ing con­spir­acy and thou­sands of peo­ple are in on it as well as some of our nations most bloated bureau­cra­cies, you really believe that Buzz Aldrin punched that guy in the face (see CNN clip below at the 2:45 mark) for noth­ing then by the tran­si­tive prop­erty one must also believe that NASA is could be so very clever that they actu­ally flew a cou­ple guys up there to plant some evi­dence and brought them home.

Ever won­dered what would have hap­pened if they didn’t make it home? The Smok­ing Gun is there.

Snopes has the skinny on this footage, but I added it for good measure.