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There's definitely some overlap because of confirmation bias (young-earthers looking to help their case). But, in my brief time exploring and trying to understa

There's definitely some overlap because of confirmation bias (young-earthers looking to help their case). But, in my brief time exploring and trying to understand the drive behind believers of 'flat earth' (mostly on YouTube), it seems to me a stronger corollary predictor for belief in 'flat earth' would be beliefs and fascinations with other conspiracy theories. I would contest that in most cases if you have a Christian who believes in young-earth and you also have a person who believes JFK's assassination was a CIA hitjob, believes 9/11 was an inside job, believes government is using chemtrails to poison or otherwise alter people's perceptions or mental/physical faculties - the latter will be the one I'm putting my money on as the most likely 'flat earth' believer.

perl4ever 7y ago
Amusingly, there's a couple of dead comments from someone saying that flat earthers are a media hoax/conspiracy.
- molmalo 7y ago
  In my country, there was a flat-earthers convention some time ago. It was going to happen in a small town, and the media took it as a funny thing to report on. One journalist actually went there, and reported about it... What at first seemed like a funny thing, turned out to be kind of scary. Yeah, there were a few small talks about flat earth. The rest of the day, the talks were mainly about about anti-vaccines, "New Germanic medicine", nationalism, white race superiority, antisemitism, etc... I guess a group of neo-nazis were smart enough to use the "flat earth" talks as a means to attract Mass Media's attention, to get them to publicize their convention for free. Here's the article about it (google translate from spanish): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infobae.com%2Fopinion%2F2019%2F03%2F06%2Fla-tierra-es-plana-nacionalista-y-antisemita%2F https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=h... --- PS: I don't get the reason for the downvotes... I'm not saying "flat earth = neonazis" nor giving any opinion at all. I'm just telling the anecdote (and linking the source) of how some people used "flat earth" for manipulating mass media into getting free publicity for their convention.
  - flukus 7y ago
    Don't know why your being downvoted but there is a lot of overlap between neo-nazis and conspiracy theorists, particularly ones of the "elders of zion" persuasion. There are whole flat-earth sub conspiracies about the nazis getting up to no good in Antarctica. The actual original nazis had all sorts of crazy beliefs in the occult, other psuedo sciences and various conspiracies about WW1 so it's hardly surprising.
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- jakeogh 7y ago
  The dead comment is someone who has not studied how it's used in real life (as used by genuine and honest people)... or it's advanced misdirection (imo)... or it's both. I wouldnt normally say that, I think it's borderline not in the spirit of the wise rules.... but it's pretty interesting how it works. It's astonishly effective to attach bad information to ideas.

perl4ever 7y ago

Amusingly, there's a couple of dead comments from someone saying that flat earthers are a media hoax/conspiracy.

molmalo 7y ago
In my country, there was a flat-earthers convention some time ago. It was going to happen in a small town, and the media took it as a funny thing to report on. One journalist actually went there, and reported about it... What at first seemed like a funny thing, turned out to be kind of scary. Yeah, there were a few small talks about flat earth. The rest of the day, the talks were mainly about about anti-vaccines, "New Germanic medicine", nationalism, white race superiority, antisemitism, etc... I guess a group of neo-nazis were smart enough to use the "flat earth" talks as a means to attract Mass Media's attention, to get them to publicize their convention for free. Here's the article about it (google translate from spanish): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infobae.com%2Fopinion%2F2019%2F03%2F06%2Fla-tierra-es-plana-nacionalista-y-antisemita%2F https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=h... --- PS: I don't get the reason for the downvotes... I'm not saying "flat earth = neonazis" nor giving any opinion at all. I'm just telling the anecdote (and linking the source) of how some people used "flat earth" for manipulating mass media into getting free publicity for their convention.
- flukus 7y ago
  Don't know why your being downvoted but there is a lot of overlap between neo-nazis and conspiracy theorists, particularly ones of the "elders of zion" persuasion. There are whole flat-earth sub conspiracies about the nazis getting up to no good in Antarctica. The actual original nazis had all sorts of crazy beliefs in the occult, other psuedo sciences and various conspiracies about WW1 so it's hardly surprising.
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jakeogh 7y ago
The dead comment is someone who has not studied how it's used in real life (as used by genuine and honest people)... or it's advanced misdirection (imo)... or it's both. I wouldnt normally say that, I think it's borderline not in the spirit of the wise rules.... but it's pretty interesting how it works. It's astonishly effective to attach bad information to ideas.