Some people believe it. Some people are trolling. Some people were trolling and realized all the power and influence they have by continuing to troll. The prim

Some people believe it. Some people are trolling. Some people were trolling and realized all the power and influence they have by continuing to troll. The primary common aspect is distrust of the word government. There are very inquisitive and scientific people in the Flat Earth community that simply distrust particular sources, but simultaneously jump to conclusions that are opposite of that source. So they are interested in proving or disproving the same thing, but they are handicapped because they can't simply reproduce existing scientific research, they have to categorically reject that too simply because the state was involved in funding or agreeing with the research. Eventually they do run interesting experiments that undermine their flat earth theories, but they are still trying to prove the earth is flat, instead of trying to prove the shape of the earth and accepting where-ever that leads them. This is distinct of how science is supposed to be done, but some of their experiments are clever.