It also provides plenty of prime comedic material. Off the Edge gives the reader a fine, detailed overview of one of humanity’s oldest and most venerable delusions in a little under 250 pages. In places, its attentive and deeply amusing observations of human folly evoke the work of the master himself, P.G. Her book is insightful and sympathetic, meeting conspiratorial doctrine with sympathy and without condescension. In Off the Edge, out this week in paperback, Daily Beast reporter Kelly Weill offers a very capable survey of the resurgent flat earth movement. Those who hold this view believe that we’re all living in The Truman Show, the subjects of a massive, all-encompassing conspiracy to deprive all eight billion of us of the most basic truth about physical reality. My chemistry class tried to have demonstrations to ground all the words in the real world.In case you weren’t aware, America is in the midst of a dramatic, internet-driven resurgence of the fanatical belief that our beautiful, oblate spheroid is in reality a flat plane whose edges are rounded up by an ice barrier hundreds of feet high, topped by a dome. My high school biology was barely more than rote memorization for every single class. The best classes provided ways to do experiments and verify things, even to screw up experiments and have to figure out what went wrong. That made it no more believable or comprehensible than anything else. Maybe what we need is a popular site that demonstrates numerous ways that amateurs could verify various aspects of what is considered true by science, along with gotchas to watch for and ways to verify that those really are gotchas.Ī lot of people were only taught "this is how things are" in science class. There's so much distrust being spread, some by genuine disbelievers, some by those seeking power from disbelief. Unfortunately, from the few videos I've seen, they aren't careful or any good at using science to examine the world. In a slight defense of the Flat Earthers, if they are at least trying to verify things themselves, I respect that portion of their otherwise stupid behavior.
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