“For one thing, where is the cash? Even the main speakers, or organizers of the conference, didn’t seem like they were rich.

While it’s entirely possible that some Flat-Earthers are trying to cash-in on the gullible, McIntyre explained that, in his experience, most of them are true believers. This shows that their beliefs weren’t really based on evidence in the first place,” he explained. Most of them just said ‘proof’ and I said ‘proof of what?’ They couldn’t be specific. “I used that question in person at FEIC 2018 and it was very telling.

McIntyre, from Boston University, told Bored Panda that if you happen to be debating a Flat-Earther, it’s best to ask them in advance what evidence would be sufficient to prove them wrong. Flat-Earther Marble brought a spirit level on a plane and shared his ‘proof’ that the Earth isn’t curved in a video We also spoke about Flat-Earthers and conspiracy theorists with Joseph Pierre, a Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Psychiatry from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Do they not understand that gravitational pull comes from the center, is based on mass, and works on water too?”

One of their main arguments was that if the Earth was spinning the water would fall off. Specifically, they are ignorant of gravitational pull. McIntyre said that he attended a Flat Earth convention back in 2018 and actually heard someone bragging about the spirit level ‘experiment.’ McIntyre said: “They are to be commended for actually trying to test their hypothesis, but of course they don’t understand at all how science actually works. As you’ll see there was no measurable compensation for curvature,” he said.īored Panda wanted to learn more about why so many people fall for conspiracy theories like the Flat Earth Theory and how to debate those who believe in it, so we reached out to Lee McIntyre, a published author and a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. According to curvature math given to explain the globe model, this should have resulted in the compensation of 5 miles of curvature. “I recorded a 23 minute and 45 seconds time-lapse, which by those measurements means the plane traveled a little over 203 miles.

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