251. Kelly Weill on Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Earth Is Flat and Not Round
flat earth implies that there's a cover up. It implies that some somewhere, for a nefarious reason, is hiding the shape of the earth. And it's a very utopian world view in a certain way. They think that there is one singularly explainable thing about why the world is wrong. As soon as people realize it, that earth is flat and not round, that we're just going to overcome all our problems. I mean, i've seen it connected to politics, like you describe. I've seen itconnected to energy. A, there's a flatter theory that, a, the world is ranged in like an ice wall, and that that wall is made like some
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