Yes but nuclear weapons are a deliberate hoax

Viruses are self-serving pseudoscience

Space is a self-serving hoax

War is often exaggerated

Terrorism is a self-serving hoax

Voting is the veneer of legitimacy on an otherwise hopelessly corrupt system and it is often rigged

The news is fiction masquerading as reporting on reality because it sells more ads

Certain famous people faked their deaths to retire their public personas at the height of their fame and keep selling their work for decades

And certain history is based on documents “discovered” by known forgers and sold to wealthy collectors who had an agenda to bolster certain claims of the legitimacy of their power in the present