The really interesting thing here is that people are now so far removed from what humanity is capable off that they have no choice but to take it as possible that all this was faked.
If they had a good general education and a healthy dose of common sense they could easily figure out for themselves what is possible and what is not.
I attribute this to general education being a lot worse than it was two generations ago.
Sure we have pretty toys, computers and all kinds of media devices. But people in general (not the HN crowd) can't do general arithmetic anymore without a calculator, which gives them a bad intuition about numerical problems and they're more concerned with 'stuff' than with knowledge.
Of course there are exceptions, I'm sure there are plenty of schools that do a great job and that hold the tradition of education high. But the general case has slipped backwards, every school that I have had contact with because of my sons education couldn't hold a candle to the highschool I was in when comparing the level of the knowledge taught in the various classes.
I remember my son coming home and telling me they do this weird thing called 'touch math' here and how the teacher wanted them to use calculators for simple arithmetic questions...
I sit among a large group of conspiracy theorists at my work.