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Kelly Weill, Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

After Words

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The Strangeness of the Flat-Earth Movement

I got the impression you were charmed by flat-earthers on some level. There's this caricature of them being Tim Foyle-Hatter's or a very dumb, and I didn't find that to be the case. You seemed just so utterly charmed by the weirdness of it that you were delighted it existed. Of course, when it gets into the actual theories that this book is promoting, I think they are ridiculous and sometimes dangerous.

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