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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

DetlefK

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8. Flat-Earthers are half-educated conspiracy-theorists imagining themselves as heroes.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 07:38 AM

Oct 2018

They alone have the truth!

Then they make a half-assed error-riddled experiment, mix it with gut-feeling and (surprise!) it leads to the conclusion that Earth must be flat.

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Flat-Earthers say pictures are all fake... [View all] Archae Oct 2018 OP

if the earth is flat , whats underneath it? AllaN01Bear Oct 2018 #1

The bottom, duh! marylandblue Oct 2018 #3

It rests on the back of a turtle . . . Journeyman Oct 2018 #4

This trend of discarding expertise/anti-intellectualism is propelled by RW and plutocracy hlthe2b Oct 2018 #2

It's true. The moon landing is fake, filmed on the same stage on which Watergate was produced. . . Journeyman Oct 2018 #5

around the globe keithbvadu2 Oct 2018 #6

That's because flat-earthers are imbeciles. TwistOneUp Oct 2018 #7

Flat-Earthers are half-educated conspiracy-theorists imagining themselves as heroes. DetlefK Oct 2018 #8

"We're not idiots" MicaelS Nov 2018 #9