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Podcast: The Jordan Harbinger Show
Episode: 886: Flat Earthers | Skeptical Sunday
Description: Why do some insist Earth is flat despite thousands of years of evidence to the contrary? Dave Farina joins us for Skeptical Sunday to round up some answers!
On This Week's Skeptical Sunday, We Discuss:
Belief in a flat Earth rejects historical knowledge, distorts observations, denies gravity, and originates from a mix of misguided ideas and online interactions.
Flat Earth proponents misrepresent scale and ignore basic principles of grade school science in their arguments against a spherical Earth.
The origins of modern flat Earth belief are uncertain, possibly beginning life as a meme or a conspiracy...