Flat-Earth Theory In Public Schools

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Should we teach the flat-earth theory in public high schools? Of course not, right? But shouldn’t schools give students both sides of this debate and teach the controversy? Well no, because there is no controversy, except in the heads of the flat-earthers. A similar feud is currently going on over whether intelligent design, another psuedoscientific “theory” should be taught in public school. Shockingly, the nonsensical argument laid out above seems to be the strongest case the intelligent design crowd seems to have in favor of their position. Another argument that the pro-ID crowd uses is that scientific consensuses have been wrong before, for example in regards to the cause of stomach ulcers (Source A). In the case, the idea that ulcers