It would be the most epic conspiracy and cover up in history.
I see this as an encouraged mistake/erroneous conflation.
What epic conspiracy and cover up was ever required for most all the educated people in the world to be wrong? They are simply all wrong because the are all taught the same wrong thing (often from childhood), en masse.
The humors, spontaneous creation, the sun being a giant ball of gas lit on fire - all of these and so much more absolute nonsense was taught as fact and defended fervently by the "learned" of their time.
No conspiracy or coverup is ever required for people to be stupid and wrong as they historically always are.
I see this as an encouraged mistake/erroneous conflation.
What epic conspiracy and cover up was ever required for most all the educated people in the world to be wrong? They are simply all wrong because the are all taught the same wrong thing (often from childhood), en masse.
The humors, spontaneous creation, the sun being a giant ball of gas lit on fire - all of these and so much more absolute nonsense was taught as fact and defended fervently by the "learned" of their time.
No conspiracy or coverup is ever required for people to be stupid and wrong as they historically always are.