in other words, there is no reason to reject a claim simply because it might be the result of a conspiracy, or hoax. you need evidence. of such a thing.
the claims of science are based on testimony. to everyone but the people involved in the experiments themselves. which is what we are talking about.
if you didnt witness an event, you must trust testimony of someone else. its just a bare fact.
there is no such thing as “scientific truth”. every theory is subject to just one observation that invalidates the results. you cant get around this. you have no way of knowing that any theory now held as “true” really is, and the historical precedent is that they are not.
your position is invalidated by the history of scientific progress itself.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superseded_scientific_theories
Physics
Emission theory of vision – discredited by Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen)
Aristotelian theory of gravity – discredited by Muhammad ibn Musa, al-Biruni, al-Baghdadi and Galileo Galilei
Aristotelian physics – discredited by Alhacen, al-Biruni, Avicenna, Avempace, al-Baghdadi, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton
Luminiferous aether – failed to be detected by the sufficiently sensitive Michelson-Morley experiment, made obsolete by Einstein’s work.
Caloric theory – Lavoisier’s successor to phlogiston, discredited by Rumford’s and Joule’s work
Vis viva – Gottfried Leibniz’s elementary and limited early formulation of the principle of conservation of energy
“Purely electrostatic” theories of the generation of voltage differences.
Emitter theory – another now-obsolete theory of light propagation.
Progression of atomic theory
Plum pudding model of the atom – assuming the protons and electrons were mixed together in a single mass
Rutherford model of the atom with an impenetrable nucleus orbitted by electrons.
Bohr model with quantized orbits
Electron cloud model following the invention of Quantum Mechanics in 1925 and the eventual atomic orbital models derived from the quantum mechanical solution to the hydrogen atom.
All of classical physics, while useful in practice, is in principle superseded by relativistic physics and quantum physics, to which classical physics is often a close approximation.
[edit] Astronomy and cosmology
Ptolemaic system – obsoleted by Ibn al-Shatir and Copernicus
Geocentric universe – obsoleted by Copernicus and Galileo
Copernican system – obsoleted by Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton
Newtonian gravity – superseded by general relativity, to which it is an excellent approximation unless the masses involved are very large or the distances very small. The Perihelion precession of Mercury was the first experimental evidence against Newtonian gravity; it also fails to describe black holes correctly.
Ether theory
Steady State Theory was a model developed by Hermann Bondi, Thomas Gold, and Fred Hoyle of an expanding universe that had no beginning. It was once a competitor of the Big Bang model until the Big Bang was confirmed as the preferred model after the discovery of the cosmic microwave background.
