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

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The Importance of Having Conversations With Flat Earthers

Kelly Weil's new book Off the Edge is about getting along with people who might not believe in something as weird as a flat world but still see the world differently than we do. She says that certain ways of binary thinking, I'm red team, blue team, I'm militantly flat or I'm a round earther aren't especially helpful for our shared maintenance of reality. "I think we need to make space for people to come back from conspiracy beliefs"

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