Skeptoid #338: The Flat Earth Theory
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2012
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The Flat Earth Theory has its origins not in alt-science but in Christian Fundamentalism.
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| 0:00.0 | The scary truth is that some people today actually do believe in a flat earth, and their belief |
| 0:09.7 | mostly comes from long immersion in the YouTube conspiracy theory culture. |
| 0:14.9 | But 150 years ago, the original flat earthers came to the same conclusion, only without |
| 0:21.0 | YouTube to help them get there. |
| 0:23.8 | What was it that drove the first people in the history of earth to actually believe something |
| 0:29.1 | so obviously false? |
| 0:31.1 | The flat earth theory is coming right up, unskaptoid. |
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| 1:29.0 | The Flat Earth Theory |
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