if important people started saying that time is actually going backwards then the general populus would agree that time is going backwards. give it like ten years and the word backwards would be redefined to the way that time moves right now
in reality there is no such thing as the present, because every moment you perceive as 'present' is actually a fraction of a second in the past
but that stuff happened in the present though
For the person who discovered cow milk, what was he doing to the cow?
milk is basically cow semen