Flat Earth Conspiracy
Until recently, I thought Flat Earth societies were making an ironic political statement about Anti-Vaxxers or Creationists or Neoconservatives or Young-Earthers or maybe just Betsy DeVos, this being a far-more logical conclusion to me than assuming an earnest conviction that the Earth is a flat disk. I love Terry Pratchett, and Diskworld is a great series, but nobody could possibly believe it‘s non-fiction, right? Then I Googled it. When I was a kid, my dad watched In Search Of , a show hosted by Leonard Nimoy that “portrayed unusual natural phenomena and 'investigated' the paranormal” [ IMDB ] . I watched it with him, and I was amazed (and sometimes a little scared) by the stories. Nimoy added a compelling gravitas to segments about stuff like Big Foot and spontaneous human combustion. Googling Flat Earth was a little bit like watching In Search Of , but without Leonard Nimoy. Google can find zillions of pages with science...