So the scientists have all been told they are going to Antarctica but instead take them to a place tricking them?
You don't think that sounds mental?
Why do you think the world works this way? What would be the point?
It's a big arse world. There is a lot of ice filled places. Most people can be shipped out to sea and to an ice covered piece of land and be told it's a part of the Antarctica they came to adopt on their global southern hemisphere, but what do they really know?
Seriously, what do they know?
Mentioning scientists as you people do, means nothing. They are just humans like anyone else. They are just as naive.
If you were taken to an iced over area and was told it's Antarctica, how would you really know?
You can lead a blind man into an elevator of any large building and tell him that he's goig to the top of the empire state building. He won't know, just as you won't know what ice you're on even though you can see.