Are You a Flat Earther?

Flat earth is a bad example of a stick that would have a very hard time fitting in with everything else we know. We tend to like to see results that confirm things we already think we believe, he says. And it's really hard to train yourself to look for results that might have a chance of proving something's wrong that you believe. Any single piece of evidence isn't left by itself. It weaves into this raft of sticks that we weave together and that's what science is.