[scythe]

"We went to the moon" is a historical claim, not a scientific one. Correspondingly, my belief in it is similar to my belief in the rest of history: it seems like the more difficult lie. Getting everyone involved in faking the moon landing to lie sounds like paying off thousands of tourists to claim they saw an ancient city on a mountain in Peru: impractical.

One thing I did realize, though, the first time I got to play with a Geiger counter, was that this was probably the first time I had actually observed the inverse-square law, after nearly two decades of schooling on the matter.