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Flat Earthers Theory

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The article “Flat-Earthers Have a Wild New Theory About Forests” by Sam Kriss covers a new development in the interesting and unusual community of “Flat-Earthers", a group that believes that the Earth is not round, but flat. The article does a great job in summarizing what the “Flat-Earthers” believe, and the “Wild New Theory” as well. However, I feel that the article falls short in explaining why one would believe the flat earth theory. Although this is not the topic of the article, the article covers what “Flat-Earthers” believe as well as the newly created theory of “No Forests” and the psychological explanation for this new theory, but leaves the reader at a loss for the explanation for why one would believe in a flat earth in the first …show more content…

Natalie Wolchover wrote an article for livescience.com titled “Are Flat-Earthers Being Serious?”. She explains their beliefs, some of the evidence that they provide for those beliefs, and also why she believes that anyone would believe in such a thing. The idea that certain people are more prone to believe in conspiracy theories is important. Karen Douglas, a psychologist at the University of Kent who studies the psychology of conspiracy theories, believes that “Flat-Earthers” cohere with other conspiracy theorists. Douglas believes that “Flat-Earthers” are influential because they are a minority that does not sway from their views. To some people this confidence in “going against the flow” is attractive. Douglas also notes that most “Flat-Earthers” don 't believe in other fringe type conspiracy theories, only the Flat earth theory. From this I conclude that “Flat-Earthers” do not believe that there is anything to “gain” from the theory. They instead simply believe that they have been lied to and want to make everyone believe that the world is flat. Their evidence is not scientifically sound, yet they believe it and will not sway from the view that the earth is flat. This confidence and feeling of a group belonging attracts others who want to feel as if they are a part of a group minority that is correct, not the group majority that is

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Conspiracy theories are widely known in the society that we live in today. Webster’s definition of a conspiracy theory is a theory that explains an event or situation as the result of a secret plan by usually powerful people or groups. Conspiracy theories are accepted by many people in the world that we live in today. A recent conspiracy theory involves the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza shot and killed twenty students.

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The truthiness in the myth lies though, from one perspective, it demonstrates a one sided old-fashioned Spanish Church that clung to a backwards thought regarding the state of the earth and which failed to listen to reason and proof. Then again, truthiness likewise portrays Columbus as a semi mainstream mastermind guided just by reason and proof.

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Hundreds of years ago, people used to believe that the earth was flat, but with the research and technology, we were able to find out that it is a perfect sphere. Aliens run along those same lines. Even with all the technology today, there is still no definite answer if we are alone in this massive universe or not. There is so much controversy weather or not aliens exist.

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The hollow earth theory or ‘hohlwelttheorie’ as it is called in German, is the idea that the Earth is not a solid mass but rather an entirely hollow sphere that within contains a substantial interior space. The idea goes back to ancient mythology, folklore, and legends of a subterranean land inside the Earth, from which places of origin and afterlife were thought to be located, such as the Christian hell described by Dante, the Greek underworld, the Hindu ‘Patala’, the Celtic ‘Cruachan’ just to name few, which in its majority were caves or holes that connected the outside Earth with its interior, from which strange creatures would emerge and be seen in the surface. However, the idea didn’t have any scientific credibility until 1962 when English

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Is the Earth Flat? Over centuries, people have debated whether or not our planet is flat. But now, with the advancements of science and technology, people still choose to believe and create groups or “societies” claiming the Earth is flat. The flat Earth idea is false due to the use of science, common sense and an individual 's own opinion. Time after time, science and technology have proven that we live on a spherical planet.

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