Was Carl Sagan in on it?

[Gnomad]

One needs only to watch a film like Transformers 3 for an example of the more overt kind (did last night, it was quite the cake).
The truth of that branch of advertganda is not contested, I presume. Pretty much agree with how Psynapz put it.

[redsock]

Just about. Inoculation doesn't require the expectation of exposure, just the statistical possibility of it, scaled up to an entire population, where a certain percentage of potential troublemakers may become exposed to some given lynchpin of some cover-up which, if exposed more widely, could jeopardize other, larger cover-ups, or entire state-sanctioned or state-operated criminal organizations.

Finally saw this -- and so a belatedly thank you.