Flat Earthers are like Nazis in that they’re numerically insignificant but tend to get an awful lot of media attention because reasons. I think people find it

Flat Earthers are like Nazis in that they’re numerically insignificant but tend to get an awful lot of media attention because reasons. I think people find it convenient to have a boogeyman who is so obviously either scientifically (flat earth) or morally (those darn Nazis!) wrong, because it justifies keeping a closed mind about other issues. “What’s that? I should listen to people I disagree with because they might have a point? But what if the people I disagree with are flat Earthers or Nazis?” As usual, slatestarcodex puts it far better than I could: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/15/the-cowpox-of-doubt/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/15/the-cowpox-of-doubt/