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What is the Flat Earth Theory and Why do People Believe it?

Conspiracy explains the theory, though he doesn’t believe it himself.
Science thinks it says more about the people who believe it than the actual theory itself. She goes a little into both the science and the psychology of being a flat earther.
We talk about horizons, sunrises, rotations, icebergs, and more!

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Links and articles:

Muskoka Roastery Coffee Co - Howling Wolf (not an ad)
https://amzn.to/3dfU4SL

@SciManDan on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/c/SciManDan

Physicist Bruce Sherwood made a model of what a flat earth would look like, using the specifications that flat earthers use:
https://youtu.be/LBhDP7IwkfE?t=211
Several contradictions of the flat earth model vs. reality, one being the size and location and patterns of the sun, sunrise, and sunset (time stamp starts at 6 minutes)

Live stream of Earth from the ISS: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/iss_ustream.html

Icebergs: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/05/Meet_the_world_s_largest_iceberg

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode we referenced:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2501838/?ref_=ttep_ep10

Articles Jen (aka Science) read:
Landrum et al. (2021). Differential susceptibility to misleading flat earth arguments on YouTube. Media Psychology, 24:1, 136-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1669461

Olshansky et al. (2020) FlatSmacked! Converting to Flat Eartherism. Journal of Media and Religion, 19:2, 46-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2020.1774257

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
02:23 Flat Earth Explained
03:08 Ice Wall
06:19 Curvature
08:47 Flat Earth Debunked
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