Tidbits

[Spekulatius]

The world is flat, according to ~34M Americans:

https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conspiracy-vs-science-survey-us-public-beliefs

 

Another ~30M is not so sure.

[DooDiligence]

Globularists unite!

[Masterofnone]

This is the flaw in democracy.

[John Hjorth]

38 minutes ago, Spekulatius said:

The world is flat, according to ~34M Americans:

https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conspiracy-vs-science-survey-us-public-beliefs

 

Another ~30M is not so sure.

 

@Spekulatius,

 

It's entertaining, yet still really depressing thinking about it.

[Spekulatius]

2 hours ago, John Hjorth said:

 

@Spekulatius,

 

It's entertaining, yet still really depressing thinking about it.

Before I moved to the US, I did not  think these people actually existed but now I have met a few. I recall one girl I met (got her number). On our first date, I quickly found that she was the super religious type and took the Bible very literally and believed the earth was 6000 years old (or therebout). I asked her about fossils, carbon dating. I guess you get the picture how this date went. She actually had some college education (liberal arts) was otherwise well versed . She went to some local church that seemed to be hardcore fundamentalist Christians.

 

These people lightly scare more because rational reasoning and the scientific method is foreign to them. If we only had those people, we would have never made it out of the Middle Ages, maybe not even in the Middle Ages.

 

This was before the Internet but I think the availability of all sorts of whacky information and post truth gospels probably made it worse. What a time to be alive.

 

Edit- the Millenials are the age cohort that believes the conspiracy theory the most according to this study. 

Edited Sunday at 05:45 PM by Spekulatius

[Spekulatius]

There we go - a flat earther millennial. Home schooling his kids supposedly:

 

[nsx5200]

12 hours ago, Masterofnone said:

This is the flaw in democracy.

To others, this is a feature 

[DooDiligence]

9 hours ago, Spekulatius said:

There we go - a flat earther millennial. Home schooling his kids supposedly:

 

 

There's a high likelihood that dude's kid is going to either wind up full on the opposite of what his dad wants or he'll be a repressed sexual predator who enjoys shoving religious regalia in his victims bums.

[Masterofnone]

It was a pleasant day to be residing at the corner of Berkshire and Fairfax.

[Spooky]

21 hours ago, Masterofnone said:

It was a pleasant day to be residing at the corner of Berkshire and Fairfax.

 

+1