![]() To understand what this is, we first must understand a familiar idea: context shift. I recommend letting philosophy do the work. Getting knee deep in the vloggersphere, you might learn the details of the scientific proofs as well as painstakingly spelling out each error in every Flat Earther’s rebuttal. But unless you’re unusual, you probably don’t know all of the details of the scientific proofs – is it something to do with ships and horizons? Or eclipses? And even if you know the details, unless you’ve indulged existing flat Earth literature you are unlikely – right here, right now – to be able to cogently, concisely and comprehensively respond to the lengthy rebuttals Flat Earthers will give to each and every scientific proof. ![]() Perhaps you then start to appeal to science. The standard of proof is higher, they say. Or possibly you rely on the testimony of astronauts. Consider one, standard, flat Earth line: “Can you prove the world is round?” Maybe you point to the ( often artificially assembled) photos of Earth from space. A glance at the comments show there’s still vitriolic disagreement in some quarters. But as scads of YouTube videos demonstrate, these proofs fail to convince everyone. Unsurprisingly, this isn’t hard to prove. Indeed, Fllat Earthers are gathering for their annual conference this year in Birmingham, just two miles from my own university.īut the Earth isn’t flat. Thinking that the Earth might be flat appears to have grown in popularity in recent years.
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