So true and it's not just politicians - scientists do the same. E=mc2 is an equation Einstein pulled out of his backside. And time passing more slowly, as part of theory of relativity, it sounds preposterous and it really is preposterous. They now say pluto is not a planet. Maybe that's because it never existed at all. Which leads some doubt onto neptune and uranus which were "discovered" well after the telescope was invented.