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Belief that the Earth is flat
Reprinted from “The Earth.” an old flat earth publication The Bible and Science, is the sub-title of what is known as Roger’s Reasons, a pamphlet in which the Bible is professedly upheld against certain Higher Critics. In this conversational pamphlet
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Matt Pike has always seemed to relish his underdog status. In the fall of 2008, Pike’s heavy metal trio of nearly a decade, High on Fire, was slotted as the warm-up band for Opeth, a Swedish prog-metal institution on a
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Many Americans believe that the Donald Trump really won the 2020 US Presidential election, and those same people are much more likely than other Americans to endorse other unsubstantiated beliefs, even ones as wild as the existence of Bigfoot, or
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It feels like the COVID-19 pandemic launched a thousand conspiracies. From microchips in the vaccines, to using bleach to treat the virus, to a shadowy cabal controlling it all, vast swaths of America fell prey to false thinking. But it
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What do flat earthers have to do with the war in Ukraine? Really nothing except one little thing. Just the other day I heard an interview of a couple of flat earthers talk. The guest and the host supported what
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Algonquin Books “Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything,” by Kelly Weill. The so-called recount of Maricopa County’s 2020 ballots was ostensibly driven by unfounded accusations of voter fraud — which led to thousands
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There’s no shortage of conspiracy theories floating around the internet. Was the moon landing faked? (No.) Are birds real? (Yes.) Is Tupac still alive? (No.) But there’s one untrue conspiracy that stands out: the flat-Earth movement. An author describes her
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Theoretical cosmologist Katie Mack spends a lot of time on Twitter. Mack, at North Carolina State University, joined the platform to talk about science under the moniker “Astro Katie” more than a decade ago. Since then, her fun and informative
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On the internet you can find many myths about space, so you need to be a skeptical reader these days. Claims of aliens and UFOs, Mars being abnormally big, or the moon turning green are the kinds of things you should
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Last Sunday afternoon, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, former TV producer and anti-vaccination activist Del Bigtree bellowed a warning: When the comeuppance arrives for what he described as authorities’ mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, “Unlike the Nuremberg trials
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