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Science Talk

Flat Earthers: What They Believe and Why

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society in the U.K., talks about flat earth belief and its relationship to conspiracy theories and other antiscience activities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

0:02.3

Hiya.

0:02.9

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

0:05.6

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

0:09.6

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

0:11.1

It's free to sell on there?

0:12.3

Free to sell?

0:13.4

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

0:16.8

You sold my guitar?

0:19.9

Shall we talk about Benning?

0:22.1

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

0:26.7

Things people love. T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles.

0:30.9

This is Scientific American Science Talk posted on March 27th, 2020.

0:36.1

I'm Steve Merski.

0:39.9

I'm going to let my guest introduce himself in a moment because he does a better job than I could. Midway through the following discussion, we'll take a

0:45.3

break for a short segment sponsored by the Cavley Prize with Caltech Planetary Astronomer Michael

0:50.8

Brown, who has done groundbreaking work, no solar system breaking work,

0:55.4

on the Kuiper Belt and its largest members. His segment is not unrelated to what we'll be

1:01.1

talking about now. It's not about coronavirus, but you'll find some parallels to how some

1:06.2

people are reacting to coronavirus. Buckle up.

1:17.9

Thank you. are reacting to coronavirus. Buckle up. So I'm Michael Marshall, and I'm the project director of the Good Thinking Society, which is a charity based in the UK. The whole purpose of our charity is to

1:23.6

promote science, to challenge pseudoscience. So we'll do work to forward science education.

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