At Flat-Earth Conference, Attendees Want People to Know They're Not Crazy

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7. It's a symptom of general distrust towards authorities.

Be it governments or celebrities or scientists... people are nowadays far more likely to take a hostile and defensive stance towards the "elite" we look up to.



The most frustrating thing about Flat-Earthers is that they pride themselves in being researchers and scientists, while showing no interest to conduct experiments in a scientifically rigorous manner and to analyze the results in a mathematical manner.

One Flat-Earth video I have seen (I kid you not) was a guy, standing at sea, pointing at the horizon and proclaiming over and over again that the horizon looks flat to him. It somehow didn't occur to him to use an instrument to quantitatively measure whether the horizon actually is flat or not.

And there was another guy who thought, he had disproven gravity because strawberries float in water.