Science and Maths leaves no room for lies.
You have continued to use this thread as a personally discussion about Flat Earth vs Round Earth.
That isn't the particular topic of this thread.
In regards to the conversation between you and I, only you have mentioned Flat Earth.
This topic is about Hoaxes and how the general public can be fooled so easily.
So let's forget FE for just a minute. Leave that aside.
Let's talk about intuition, and please let's leave comments about your wife out of it. It's irrelevant and off topic.
Since you do not want to address my questions directly, I will submit and move onto your preferred argument.
Your intuition tells you that all the science you have learned is correct. You believe what you are reading and learning to be factual. Correct?
So. Your complete understanding about let's call it, "How the world works" mostly came from books written by other people. You believe what you have read.
Well I have a read a book about a man that met with aliens and all the world leaders underground and they chose him to spread a message.
I have also read a book about how Ross Perot, a previous presidential candidate, was funding a secret war against aliens here on earth.
Now. I Personally DO NOT Subscribe to those book, nor do I believe them. I have a suspicion that you do not either.
Now both of these books, among many others about alien encounters are published and readily available in public libraries. Under the Non-Fiction section.
If I taught a child from birth to adult that those books were factual, as an adult no one could possibly make him think another way without constant and equal conviction. He would always accept that as fact and never submit to another way of thinking.
Now you subscribe to science. You believe what you have read in science books.
You say experiments have been made. Yes many have. We can see it all around us in the form of technology.
However, many experiments are debatable and will always remain debatable.
Also, just because an experiment has been published does mean it couldn't be fraudulent.
And that is my only point in this argument. How do YOU know what is fraudulent and what is not?
Where do you draw the line?
Let me give you an example:
I can read many books, see many videos, and even mainstream television will have news reports, t.v. shows on the History channel, etc. all about proof of aliens among us.
I don't believe in any of that. I believe that is all made up. And that is where I draw the line.
Yet I have no proof. But my intuition tells me that its all made up. Why? Because I have seen so much fake stuff on t.v. to know it's not real.
This is the same way I feel about NASA and supposed space exploration. I personally don't believe man has ever been in space. I cannot prove that, I can only look at the anomolies in the official story and use my intuition to draw a conclusion.
See you've made this into some kind of debate that never existed. This just talking and giving thoughts and ideas. Differnt ways of thinking.
Most people accept every single aspect of learned knowledge growing up and KNOW they are right!
Let's take Magellan for example. Most people site him as being the first person to circumnavigate the world in a ship. Well he died during that voyage and you can end there with that story.
Once that voyage was over, the records were locked away in the queens diary for a number of years before the public was made aware.
Hmm.. Main Captain dies before voyage is over, secrets kept from the public...
My intuition tells me I smell a rat.... and more anomolies can be found in the official STORY of Magellan.
I submit they are just stories, yet the general public accepts them as fact.
As a free thinker, I find that both humorous and frustrating.