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Exactly! I don't understand why they want to censor this, it shows how people can actually accept a scientific method through experimentation...

by avaku 7y ago

freehunter 7y ago
Alternatively it shows how people can reject well-established scientific fact based on no scientific analysis whatsoever.
driverdan 7y ago
Except they don't. Belief in flat earth is an ideology, it's not based on science. All of the evidence clearly shows the earth is round. You have to completely ignore the scientific method to believe the earth is flat.
JaimeThompson 7y ago
The "main" flat earth research organization if FECORE which kicks out members who ask hard questions and deletes comments from their videos that detail flaws / misstatements of fact in their reports and videos. They don't care about getting the correct answer, to them they already know the correct answer so anything that goes against that answer is ignored.
481092 7y ago
It's not censoring, just changing the algorithm according to relevance. You could argue that other people were censored first so that youtube would suggest FE theory videos before their own which may have been more relevant. But it seems youtube's current algo is 'this is a conspiracy video, here's another conspiracy video' instead of 'this is a 9/11 video, here's another 9/11 related video'.
addicted 7y ago
The amount of basic science you have to reject to believe in Flat Earth theory is mind boggling. Let’s keep in mind that these are not even non-spherical earth believers, who could probably conjure up a shape, in higher dimensions that may be able to explain basic observations. These are people who believe in a flat earth, which can be disproved by simple science and logic, such as ships appearing from a horizon, looking at a mountain at a distance, seeing the shadow of the earth during a lunar eclipse, or the simple fact that every other planet we see is spherical. There may be an interesting thought experiment to see what sort of shape we could conjure up that would explain the facts as we know them but that’s not what they are doing.

Exactly! I don't understand why they want to censor this, it shows how people can actually accept a scientific method through experimentation...

by avaku 7y ago

Exactly! I don't understand why they want to censor this, it shows how people can actually accept a scientific method through experimentation...

freehunter 7y ago

Alternatively it shows how people can reject well-established scientific fact based on no scientific analysis whatsoever.

driverdan 7y ago

Except they don't. Belief in flat earth is an ideology, it's not based on science. All of the evidence clearly shows the earth is round. You have to completely ignore the scientific method to believe the earth is flat.

JaimeThompson 7y ago

The "main" flat earth research organization if FECORE which kicks out members who ask hard questions and deletes comments from their videos that detail flaws / misstatements of fact in their reports and videos. They don't care about getting the correct answer, to them they already know the correct answer so anything that goes against that answer is ignored.

481092 7y ago

It's not censoring, just changing the algorithm according to relevance. You could argue that other people were censored first so that youtube would suggest FE theory videos before their own which may have been more relevant. But it seems youtube's current algo is 'this is a conspiracy video, here's another conspiracy video' instead of 'this is a 9/11 video, here's another 9/11 related video'.

addicted 7y ago

The amount of basic science you have to reject to believe in Flat Earth theory is mind boggling. Let’s keep in mind that these are not even non-spherical earth believers, who could probably conjure up a shape, in higher dimensions that may be able to explain basic observations. These are people who believe in a flat earth, which can be disproved by simple science and logic, such as ships appearing from a horizon, looking at a mountain at a distance, seeing the shadow of the earth during a lunar eclipse, or the simple fact that every other planet we see is spherical. There may be an interesting thought experiment to see what sort of shape we could conjure up that would explain the facts as we know them but that’s not what they are doing.