Really interesting thoughts. It's a complicated topic, because humans tend to oversimplify the world in order to make decisions.

Do you spend hours researching facts or do you trust your teacher, or a textbook, or a doctor, or a web site? Imagine how your life would be if you tried to independently verify everything you saw or heard?

Can you trust your google research that says Egyptians built pyramids near quarries, even though geological evidence shows rare evidence of quarries and tests show that the the majority of stones in most pyramids come from no where near the surrounding areas (stones came from a mix of sometimes far-flung places)? And many historians and archeologists now largely agree, based on scientific evidence, that the Egyptians used a fairly sophisticated network of canals and sledges, probably along with a technique of lubricating the sand under the sleds, to haul stones from at least several miles away? With one team going to far as to postulate, based on their research, that at least for the Giza complex, they leveraged the seasonal rising and falling of the Nile to let the water surges slowly float their stones to the construction site, then work on the pyramids when the waters receded?

Nobody "knows" anything, but at some point, you have to trust something. You trust your eyes, but a magician can deceive you. You trust science, but scientists have been wrong for millenia. In fact, they're still plenty wrong -- even good, well-established scientists published in peer-reviewed journals. I work for a scientific research agency, and we found that 90 percent of our research projects have never been replicated, and of the project that were replicated, 40% failed. 40 percent!

Yet we believe. Is it because the scientists and magicians tell us a good story? Probably. And that's how we're wired. Stories help us understand the world, simplify our decisions, and act confidently. If not for stories, we couldn't make sense of the world. Some of our stories are fiction, some are nonfiction. It's on all of us to help each other identify which is which.

Here's an article that you might appreciate. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/supersurvivors/201705/why-do-people-believe-things-aren-t-true. There's lots of scientific research backing him up. Just check google, reddit, and quora.

Though, it's possible the research is wrong. Nobody knows, do they? You just have to trust...