Scepti, serious question here, do you really think that given the required tools you can fool a person who studied 3 to 5 years at least to get a university degree into believing what he is doing, although faked by some government or whatever, is actually correct? Do you really think this person who would be extremely well trained in his domain would not notice something wrong? Do you have any sort of work experience in technical fields yourself?
In answer to your first question, yes I most certainly do and it's happening in all walks of life.
The fact is though, it's not as simple as just getting taught something on a whim, it's about a continuation of being taught bogus science mixed in with real science.
You can come out of college or uni and be a competent electronics engineer and be taught all the resistance variations and capacitor strengths, parallel resistors, diodes and all the rest of it and you could end up working on the diagrams for what you believe is a circuit board for a satellite and feel a part of that, yet never see that satellite, ever and your expertise has gone into making the circuit board for something entirely different.
It's easy to dupe people into doing stuff wrongly, it just has to be done on a large enough scale in terms of indoctrinating people into copying it.
As a silly opposite analogy, let's say that everyone was taught to play football by running backwards and kicking the ball entailed back heeling it around the pitch and anyone kicking it frontwards were penalised.
All games would be played like this, if this were the taught rules.
Imagine at all the secret places we never get to see, they are playing football how we play it today, yet never let on.
As time goes on, some whistle blower comes out and says. " you're all playing football wrong, you do it going forward"....that person would be told to go and take a jump, because it's clear the game isn't played like he said, even though a few out of the box thinkers would be shouting, "hey, think about it. This person is correct. It makes much more sense to do it the way he said, because after all, we do walk forwards when we aren't playing football and out feet would control a ball better, etc, etc, et,c.
That's brainwashing for you and it's exactly the same with this round earth rotation clap trap and gravity and all the other stuff that does not make any real sense, when there's other stuff that does.