I don't think that's true. I think people underestimate the difficulty of keeping conspiracies secret - and I think the difficulty increases exponentially with each new person who is a part of it.
One of the US's most precious secrets of the 20th century was how to develop nuclear weapons. There are theories that the atomic bomb was invented once, during the Manhattan project, and all subsequent countries learned how to do it through espionage - including the Soviet Union. If we couldn't keep that secret - a known secret, but still a secret - I doubt we could keep something as public as the moon landings secret.
Also, as a counter to your premise, consider acting. Good acting is hard. When faking something, it's difficult to be conscious of all of the things that you would do where you actually doing it.
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I don't think that's true. I think people underestimate the difficulty of keeping conspiracies secret - and I think the difficulty increases exponentially with each new person who is a part of it.
One of the US's most precious secrets of the 20th century was how to develop nuclear weapons. There are theories that the atomic bomb was invented once, during the Manhattan project, and all subsequent countries learned how to do it through espionage - including the Soviet Union. If we couldn't keep that secret - a known secret, but still a secret - I doubt we could keep something as public as the moon landings secret.
Also, as a counter to your premise, consider acting. Good acting is hard. When faking something, it's difficult to be conscious of all of the things that you would do where you actually doing it.