Is There a Place for Censorship?

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In some of the holicostanir conferences they had for sale at the book table a the protocols henry ford's book, the aternas f, the eternal jew. And i meanwith something like mine comf, i mean, while you don't want it in circulation, aso important that people understand the impact that it had and that it continues to have. So where exactly do you draw the line? I mean, i thit is going to get clipped out of context. I can see it already. But i do think it should be avalable for purchase. It's one of the most destructive pieces of literature available, and it's also one of the

Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a nearly 200-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, a wholesale rejection of everything we know to be true about the world in which we live. Where did this idea come from

Michael Shermer speaks with journalist Kelly Weill whose work covers extremism, disinformation, and online conspiracy theories in current affairs. The conversation is based on her book Off the Edgewhich tells a powerful story about belief, polarized realities, and what needs to happen so that we might all return to the same spinning globe.

Shermer and Weill discuss: the binary/black-and-white thinking of conspiracy theorists; how Flat-Earthism is ultimately a conspiracy theory about how NASA and the government are covering up the biggest secret in history; how Flat-Earthism is a proxy for other conspiracy theories (i.e., 9/11 truth, QAnon, and anti-Semitic beliefs about nefarious Jewish organizations conspiring to achieve world domination); and the role of social media in propagating conspiracy theories.