Contest Alert ! Biggest Lie Ever, my article

This is a very good idea for a contest, it also will involve a lot of rejections of pre conceptions, for example you say no one has ever been to the moon, but can you prove it? The Earth is not a sphere it is flat, if this is true it would make all geography a lie, COVID does not exist, does this mean people who supposedly died of it died of something else? So for every thing we say is a lie there will be a counter argument stating it is true. In the end, the truth belongs to those with the most power, remember victors write history.

Now for my lie I will just state a few things that have always made me ponder about the reality of things. One thing I have always doubted is the assurance with which scientists can pin point the exact distance of a star from the Earth, even to billions of light years. Now to get the distance of something you have to have a reference point, what reference point can scientists have in able to declare these distances? For example Proxima Centauri is supposed to be 4 light years away because that is how long it takes for light from that star to reach the Earth, now ask yourself how do scientists know the exact moment that light left that star? I say they are lying and also bluffing. The same goes for how old something is, I remember when I was a boy Carbon 14 was infallible, it gave you the age of anything nearly to the hour even if it was millions of years old. Fast forward a couple of decades and it turns out it really is nowhere near exact,

But we have all been at some point subject to these which are obvious lies and we have believed them because we preferred to go with the tide than to question what we are told. And you know, perhaps I am wrong and scientists can really measure immense distances and colossal times accurately, but I highly doubt it. I even put the speed of light in the dubious class. Only way that these things could be measured with the science we have is if along the way we were helped by aliens, but that would open a new can of beans so I won't go into that.

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I hope you can see the error in this, you use background stars to measure distance but have absolutely no idea at what distance these stars are, so as reference points they suck.