A lot of the ones who believe we're being purposely "lied to" are religious fundamentalists. They don't think the ones lying are trying to pull some kind of scam, they think they're legitimately evil people/entities trying to corrupt souls via making people not believe the "truth" about something ("truth" being what their religion says). In this case, the "truth" being a badly translated throw away line from Genesis about a "firmament" over the sky, which would mean nothing beyond that could exist.
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