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Mar 27, 2020 · Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society in the U.K., talks about flat earth belief and its relationship to conspiracy theories and other antiscience activities. Two ...
- Why People Think The Earth Is Flat
- Flat Earth Theories on Movement, Other Science
- Flat Earth Theories on The Horizon Line
- Flat Earth Theories on Space and Astronauts
Experts say flat Earth claims endure in large part because of the repetition enabled by social media. "There's what you might think of as a misinformation feedback loop," said Jeffery Blevins, a professor at the University of Cincinnati who specializes in misinformation. "If you have just one false claim from one source that gets repeated by other ...
Claim: Earth isn't curved and doesn't rotate Our rating: False The Earth is curved and does rotate, and there are several ways scientists have proved this, experts say. The curvature of the Earth can be seen from an elevated vantage point, and the rotation of the Earth impacts daily functions like the routes planes fly. This rotation just can't be ...
Claim: Photo of solar eclipse taken at the South Pole proves Earth is flat Our rating: False Scientists explained that a variety of factors including the location and time the photographs were taken account for why the sun appears to be moving in a straight line. Timelapse pictures of the eclipse from anywhere else in the world show a curved path i...
Claim: Lack of stars in space photos means they were created with a green screen Our rating: False Stars don't show up in many space photos because they are too dim to be detected with the camera settings required to capture brighter objects. Read more. Claim: Video shows NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg in front of a green screen Our rating: False The ...
Nov 5, 2020 · Mack Lamoureux. 02.25.20. For photographer Philippe Braquenier, the Flat Earthers’ visual quest is linked to the "cultural and political power” that images have on our society. In his series ...
Jun 23, 2011 · Ingenious 'Flat Earth' Theory Revealed In Old Map. In 1893, Orlando Ferguson, a real estate developer based in South Dakota, drew a map of the Earth that combined biblical and scientific knowledge ...
May 30, 2018 · By Alan Burdick. May 30, 2018. Illustration by Robert Beatty. On the last Sunday afternoon in March, Mike Hughes, a sixty-two-year-old limousine driver from Apple Valley, California, successfully ...
Jul 3, 2022 · Polls by YouGov America in 2018 and FDU in 2022 found that as many as 11% of Americans believe the Earth might be flat. While it is tempting to dismiss "flat Earthers" as mildly amusing, we ignore ...
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- Carlos Diaz Ruiz
Jan 29, 2016 · Turtles all the way down. However, from at least the 6th century BCE, the theory of the flat Earth began to fall out of favour. By the time we get to Aristotle in the 4th century BCE, the idea of ...
