It isn't. A lot of popular conspiracy stuff is pretty new and the internet helped their spread.

It does remind me of Galileo's quote "Eppur si muove" (still it moves). Or less directly Feynman's "for a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled".

Reality doesn't care about anyone's opinion.

It's the first part of a two-part poem published in Poetry Magazine in 2006.

https://www.onelimited.org/p-cope-01