<Li> Dennis Lindley used the myth to help explain the necessity of Cromwell's rule in Bayesian probability: "In other words, if a decision - maker thinks something cannot be true and interprets this to mean it has zero probability, he will never be influenced by any data, which is surely absurd . So leave a little probability for the moon being made of green cheese; it can be as small as 1 in a million, but have it there since otherwise an army of astronauts returning with samples of the said cheese will leave you unmoved ." </Li> <Li> The hypothesis that "the Moon is made of green cheese" is said to be testable by cluster analysis . </Li>

Who came up with the moon is made of cheese