We can laugh at genuine flat earthers but how many of us can actually explain a proof of the globular earth without just pointing to a model globe or photos taken from space? Flat Earthers argue that the ‘common sense’ of our own eyes tells us the earth is flat and that the Bible (and their own branch of ‘science’) backs them up.

The founders were pointing out the importance of critical thinking and the importance of questioning authority. The most interesting section was on the Canadian Flat Earth Society founded as a joke but one with philosophical overtones.

It has taken me quite a long time to read this book as it is fascinating in parts but the very nature of denialist arguments render it repetitive as different manifestations of the Flat Earth Society have repeated earlier experiments and ‘proofs’. This book traces the history of the Flat Earth idea. Yet, bizarrely, it was not until the supposedly more rational nineteenth century that the notion of the flat earth really took hold. Elle Richardson, Science Editor May 23, 2023. If you have suggestions for guests you'd like to hear on the podcast, please contact us and we'll try our best to make it. It's hosted by Daniel Shenton and Michael Wilmore. The Idea of a spherical world had been widely accepted in educated circles from as early as the fourth century BC. Unsplash There is a full society of people who believe the Earth is flat. This is the Flat Earth Society Podcast, a place or free thinkers to discuss alternative science and new or unusual ways of viewing the world.

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