Debating the Flat Earth Debunkers
I thought it good to look at what flat earth debunkers say in their articles and videos and how they try to debunk the flat earth. Here is one (of many) and I will attempt to point out where they
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Reality Check: Why flat-Earthers still exist
Flat Earth videos rack up huge views on the Internet — but how could anyone believe such a fundamentally false idea? Daily Beast reporter Kelly Weill joins John Avlon on this week’s Reality Check to discuss her new book and
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Here’s why some people STILL believe the Earth is flat
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Kelly Weill in conversation with Vegas Tenold
Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a nearly two-hundred-year-old delusion—the idea that we all live on a flat plane, under a solid dome, ringed by an impossible wall of ice. It is the ultimate in conspiracy theories,
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Here’s why some people STILL believe the Earth is flat
Flat Earth videos rack up huge views on the Internet — but how could anyone believe such a fundamentally false idea? Daily Beast reporter Kelly Weill joins John Avlon on this week’s Reality Check to discuss her new book and
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Flat Earth: TikTok, YouTube Launched 19th Cent. Conspiracy Theory
Of all the conspiracy theories in history — QAnon, the faked moon landing, the belief that Katy Perry is somehow JonBenet Ramsey — perhaps none is as ridiculous, as outright outlandish, as Flat Earth theory. The archaic belief that the
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The dark side of online space disinformation
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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Fact check: Compass works on a globe because of magnetic field lines
The claim: A compass wouldn’t work if Earth is spherical Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field generated by electric currents from within the planet. Compasses take advantage of this field to identify north and serve as a navigational aid. But one
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Fact check: A compass is oriented to the Earth’s magnetic field lines, doesn’t prove flat earth
The claim: A compass wouldn’t work if Earth is spherical Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field generated by electric currents from within the planet. Compasses take advantage of this field to identify north and serve as a navigational aid. But one
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Believing ‘virtually anything that they want’: The rise of the flat earth …
The Earth is round. Science has proved it. We, as a fact-based news organization, feel comfortable stating that fact. But there are people who would disagree. Those people are called “Flat-Earthers.” A new book by reporter Kelly Weill documents the
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