(Presumably, Soviet cosmonauts were also in on the con, suggesting a remarkable degree of American/Soviet co-operation and co-ordination at the height of the Cold War era.) Show Flat Earthers pictures of our round planet, taken from space, and they simply respond that NASA is part of a complicated fraud, involving all kinds of elaborate sets and actors. A well-constructed conspiracy theory is invulnerable, because every piece of evidence you attempt to produce to rebut the conspiracy only proves, to true believers, just how deep and sinister the conspiracy is. The problem is, you can’t actually have an argument, a rational debate, with people who have bought into a conspiracy theory. Now, I’ll admit, I am deep in the pocket of Big Geography. Since 2015, Flat Earthism has been enjoying an internet-fuelled renaissance, with people using YouTube and Facebook and Twitter to spread their conspiracy theories, to share their “clues” that we’ve all been tricked into believing the Earth is round. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. That organization’s ideas, he told me firmly, are laughable. SunMediaĭavidson stressed that his organization has absolutely no affiliation with the Flat Earth Society. An illustration of the Earth, as some Flat Earthers believe it looks, with the North Pole in the centre. He believes it’s a static plane, fixed in space, with the sun and other planets orbiting around it. Just not ours.īut then again, he doesn’t believe the Earth is a planet at all. We’re being lied to by the upper echelon.”ĭavidson believes all the other planets are round. “Hypothetically, if this is true, there probably is no greater lie. “The whole topic of the flat Earth is bigger than just the shape of Earth,” Davidson told me. Last year, he organized his first Flat Earth event outside Raleigh, N.C., which sold out and garnered national media attention. ![]() This isn’t his first trip around the sun. “It’s definitely going to put Edmonton on the map,” Davidson told me Friday, without a hint of irony. From across - but not around - the world. He’s hoping to draw between 300 and 400 people to the convention. ![]() The Flat Earth International Conference is the brainchild of Edmontonian Robbie Davidson, who bills himself on his Twitter account as a “Christian, husband, father, filmmaker, enclosed creationist, drummer, painter and media consultant.” That's a spicy (flat) meatball! /Dn5NoOX7jl- Trevor Robb March 2, 2018 It's one thing to believe the Earth is flat but it's quite another to pay up to $300 for VIP tickets.
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