Yeah, I know it’s human nature that people will always seek the reassurance of being part of a group in preference to the isolation of thinking for themselves, and will believe the completeness of an absurd mythology rather than accept the gaps in current scientific knowledge.
I still don’t get it though.
If I was going to make some outrageous claim of cycling ability, I’d tell people I had cycled the length of the Grand Union Canal in 7 hours.
Go on, prove I haven’t.
I wouldn’t claim to have won last year’s Mountain Mayhem, when it’s so easy to check the results.
I just find it bizarre that someone went to so much trouble to hire all those actors and the set to make a “factual” film that is so obviously fiction.