See the sun in the sky? You’re seeing it how it was 8 minutes ago. Now extrapolate that out to something like the Hubble, peering into the far reaches of the universe...
Unlike the sun, how do you know where in the universe time began?
For all we know, these "scientists" have looked past the point where time began and are looking back to the present, and in essence, just wasting my money on stupidity.