I think she's smarter than this.
Oddly enough I think the same thing about religion all the time. Where - by the way - people believe claims much, much, much more extraordinary with far, far, far, far less proof. So, its' OK to try to butter me up and get me to somehow believe that GOD - the lord high maker and ruler of the entire universe through all time and space - came to earth, as a human, showed up in a backwash, continually troubled province of the Roman Empire back 'bout 2,000 years ago now, where he was executed as a common criminal after enjoying his earth-bound life as a carpenter. And that's OK, because if he was not executed I'd still suffer from original sin and be punished with eternal hell fire (mostly for masturbating and having sex) because some girl ate some apple or something, and by dying in a most horrible way we were freed from sin forever, but not from the need to masturbate. Which apparently you still shouldn't do, and can still get sent to hell for.
And you want me to believe that, but entertaining the notion that the government of the United States participated in some huge hoax* (we're still holding the weekly "Republican Primary" debates aren't we? 7 people who should never be President pretending to run for the office?) while lying like a rug (yeah, no basis to ever think that) just to score a PR coup is somehow beyond the bounds of reason.
Yeah. About that...
There is nothing amazing in most conspiracy theories, indeed they often offer an explanation that seems much easier on the surface to believe than the commonly accepted facts: in this case that the same nation that created the Tea Party and seeming fights against science at every turn, particularly in the educational system, could have ever done anything as scientifically-based as put a man on the moon. It's much easier, more convenient, far more apparent (and a hella lot cheaper too), and far easier to control if we just did it on TV (we are the TVNation after all) and just try to pass it off as fact, which was not that hard as most people were already believing that.
Wehrner became member of the Schuts Staffel as Sturmbahnfurher purely to get funding for his research.
No excuse.
* - not to put too fine a point on it, but this December 24, at some point in the evening (most likely chosen to be the right time in the Eastern Time Zone) NORAD, the US's first-line defense against rocket-based nuclear war, will announce they have spotted Santa Claus. I love this moment in the holidays more than any other moment. Really. I do.