( Disclaimer : what is written by me could be fact or fake as my mind is preoccupied with impressions and knowledge which could be dangling between facts and fakes. I have no intention to mislead or confuse you with my 'fact or fake'. You have to use your critical thinking to judge for yourself. )
History has shown that it is always the powers that be were to decide a phenomenon or event to be a fake or a fact.
They could dictate a fake to be a fact or the other way round and others had to accept it whole-heartedly.
For example, in the Middle Age, the Catholic Church then was very powerful that the people were told to believe that the earth was flat as in accordance with their teaching or understanding of Christianity. Scientists then who held different opinions, theories or postulates would be prosecuted.
Whoever wanted to conduct experiments to show that the earth was round had to do it quietly and secretly.
Later a Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan became the first person to circumnavigate the globe.
Having done that, the belief of the church authority that 'the earth is flat' had become a fake.
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