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Originally Posted by Vivisectus
By the way, here is the link:
Flat Earth Society Wiki
More evidence of the bias, of the stifling orthodoxy of modern science. These people are not even getting a look-in: not a penny of research funds goes into their ideas, not ONE astro-physicist takes them seriously, all because people are afraid to upset the cosy old boys club atmosphere that reigns in modern academic circles. I ask you: do you call that objective? Do you call that a free and unfettered exploration of the facts as they are? Challenge their comfortable little consensus and they close ranks like the mafia, bullying all dissent into silence and silencing them with their ridicule. It is amazing we can get any science done at all, really. |
Some things that have been studied have such an overwhelming preponderance of evidence (not just circumstantial) that they deserve to be called facts. The pictures that man has obtained of earth as a sphere, as well as all other celestial bodies, is enough to consider a round earth scientifically sound. I would not give equal time or funding to a flat earther because it contravenes everything that we can see visually, and because believing in a flat earth would do nothing to benefit our world. If it did, we might want to take another look, but as far as I know it wouldn't.