Here are some of the key points from Landrum’s answers, edited for length and clarity. We asked her, well, just what in the round world is going on here? To that end, we talked to Asheley Landrum, assistant professor of science communication at Texas Tech University, who has been studying the movement, if you want to call it that. Perhaps the first step in answering that question is understanding why a belief like flat Earth can flourish, at least among certain groups of willing adherents.
A 2018 YouGov survey found that 16% of 8,215 American adults queried had various levels of doubt about the true shape of the Earth.Īt this point, it’s probably fair to ask: When is American society going to hit epistemological bottom? For example, last month the third annual Flat Earth International Conference convened in Dallas the rapper B.o.B once started a GoFundMe campaign as part of a quest to gather ungatherable evidence for the idea and basketball star Kyrie Irving has found himself having to apologize for publicizing the view on Twitter. We’re speaking of what appears to be the disturbing trend of people thinking the surface of the world is flat. Nearly the entire coastline of Africa is clearly visible, along with the Arabian Peninsula. It's the first time astronauts were able to photograph the South polar ice cap.
The Apollo 17 crew caught this breathtaking view of Earth as they were traveling to the moon on Dec. The spherical shape of Earth is what we like to call around here “settled science.” But nowadays, pit even a 2,500-year-old truism against the evangelism of Internet algorithms, and you got yourself an actual “debate,” no matter how inane.
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