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part of the issue is that producing shit research cost very little, and debunking shit research cost a lot. just pick up one of the many "x reasons why earth is
by avereveard 5y ago
part of the issue is that producing shit research cost very little, and debunking shit research cost a lot. just pick up one of the many "x reasons why earth is not a sphere" videos, some are pretty easy to debunk, but other require to understand i.e. potential fields (if earth is round why don't train engineer take into account curvature when laying tracks and variations thereof)
- cgriswald 5y agoShit research can sometimes be debunked just by running the numbers given by the shit researchers. Flat earth theorists don’t often offer up actual research (and the one group I’ve seen try got negative results and concluded they messed up, not that they were wrong). A theory ought to be able to answer questions like “Why don’t train engineers take the curvature of the Earth into account?” The problem is when someone comes along and thinks an unanswered question (or even just someone not knowing the answer off the top of their head) proves a theory is completely false (or worse, proves their favorite theory correct). (And to even believe the Earth is flat is to be a conspiracy theorist so in this particular case no prove will ever suffice anyway.)