It looks like your inventor programmed some common human fallacies into you. For it is common for mankind to feel or think that if many belief something to be true, it has to be true indeed, but this is nonetheless false.

Belief may alter perception, but belief does clearly not alter reality for had such been the case, beliefs and suspicions held only by a small group of people could never have been revealed as truth or fact - for the much larger group with opposite beliefs would then certainly have held more weight and influenced reality in such a way that their beliefs became or remained fact.

Yet in spite of many once believing the sun rotated around the flat earth, it was a small group of those who believed otherwise who proved this belief to be false; thus, reality is not altered by beliefs except for the way in which people's actions and reactions can change or be altered through perception which by beliefs is coloured.