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Belief that the Earth is flat
In 2022 it’s hard to decide which is the craziest conspiracy theory people believe. Among chemtrails, QAnon, rigged election, and vaccine conspiracies, flat Earth (F.E.) beliefs surely belong at or near the top. Why? The other conspiracy beliefs have at
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Here is a good experiment to try on your friends, listing it in steps. First, DON’T tell them what it’s about or what they represent. If you have three people, that’s good. If you have only two, that would be
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Enlarge Martin Wimmer Off the Edge is not a book about conspiracy theories, exactly. It does get there, but really it is a book about the history of the Flat Earth movement as the sort of original conspiracy theory. It
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The heliocentric model of the universe places our Sun at the centre of a solar system that is orbited by the planets in the following order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. This model proposes that the
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But you described in your comment, all of the things in which we all struggle would disappear if we simply knew the truth. If all of the technology that exists were available to the public, our lives would change overnight.
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In case you weren’t aware, America is in the midst of a dramatic, internet-driven resurgence of the fanatical belief that our beautiful, oblate spheroid is in reality a flat plane whose edges are rounded up by an ice barrier hundreds
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The claim: US government confirmed all satellites are just balloons A Feb. 3 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) shows a screenshot of a tweet that references the Chinese spy balloon spotted floating across the U.S. in early February. “Whoops. US Gov
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In November 2018, about 600 people gathered for a two-day convention in Denver, Colorado. They wore clothes saying the Earth is flat. They listened to speakers who rejected findings from the American space agency NASA and much of the scientific
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It is one of many childhood myths we believed in that the ancient civilizations all thought the world was flat. Some truly did, but the Earth’s spherical shape was figured out by astronomers, geometers, and navigators from Ancient Greece and
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For centuries, humans have known that the world is round. From early observations of the moon’s shape to circumnavigating the globe, we have ample evidence that the earth is not flat. Despite this, there are still those who cling to
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