Now, there's a small (but not insignificant) portion of the population who believe the FOOTAGE of the moon landing was faked, not the landing themselves. Why? So that any unplanned events (astronauts die a horrible death on camera, UFOs parading in the background, etc.) Besides, the video feed from the first landing was so bad, it could easily have been faked. Was the landing faked? Probably not, but NONE of us are in a position to say definitively, simply because we weren't the ones up there.

Nobody is going to convince anybody else one way or the other. I have spent most of my life believing that the moon landings were real, simply because I didn't possess the critical faculties to doubt, and had no reason to doubt. Doesn't mean it actually happened, though. Many things we believe to be "real" are not, and we should always stay flexible in our thinking processes. My $.02