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The group of students from Sussex University, who say they believe the Earth is flat, are meeting for drinks at the pub in Middle Street, Brighton, on September 4. Many believers, who call themselves Flat Earthers, believe Nasa is a conspiracy, that the sun revolves around the Earth and the planet …
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All around the world, there are conspiracy theorists who believe the Earth is flat. And their community seems to be growing, judging by attendance at flat Earth conferences and events. Flat Earthers say YouTube was key in helping them spread their message. One researcher found that of attendees at …
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Wednesdays beginning July 24, 9:00 and 10:00 pm In this five-part series, NOVA explores the awesome beauty of the planets, including Saturn’s 175,000-mile-wide rings, Mars’ ancient waterfalls four times the size of any found on Earth, and Neptune’s winds—12 times stronger than any hurricane felt on …
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A little over a year ago I was doing my rounds in Brooklyn, surveying trees for an invasive beetle species, when one of my co-workers shared an odd piece of information with me: Flat Earthers, people who believe the Earth is flat instead of spherical, also believe that trees don’t exist. That’s a …
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Though people once believed the Earth was flat, science has since confirmed that our planet is an oblate spheroid. Flat Earth theorists, however, have maintained this is a full-blown conspiracy. Many Flat Earthers claim that NASA is deceiving us and insist that the world isn’t spherical but …
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There’s hardly a more perfect place to discuss the merits of a flat Earth than a fake British pub, situated on a fake street in the world’s shittiest tourist attraction. Myself and four of the most well-known flat earthers in the world are in the Sherlock Holmes pub in West Edmonton Mall’s Bourbon …
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Campanella traveled to Antarctica on a mission he dubbed ‘The Final Experiment’ and witnessed how the sun doesn’t set during the summer firsthand. Jeran Campanella/YouTube Jeran Campanella, host of the YouTube show “Jeranism,” spent $35,000 on a trip to Antarctica to prove the earth is flat just to …
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Oskar Howell went to the inaugural Flat Earth New Zealand Conference in Auckland and found some surprisingly normal people with some very strange beliefs. I am not a flat earther. I believe this ball we are on is round, and we are hurtling through space at over 100,000 kilometres an hour, destined …
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I recently watched “Behind the Curve”—a new Netflix documentary about the community of people who believe that the Earth is flat rather than spherical—with the expectation that I’d sit back and have a laugh at the expense of the flat-Earthers. But I was wrong. I was totally swayed. Here are the …
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The internet, as we are all patently aware by this point, is awash with some incredible nonsense. In recent years, some of that nonsense has managed to gain a disturbing amount of traction: the anti-vaxxer movement, a religious belief in alternative medicine, the flat Earth theory, and even …
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