Cambridge Skeptics Discuss: Lessons from the Flat Earth

Back on the 29th June 2021 I lead a discussion about what we can learn from people who believe that the earth is flat with the rest of the Cambridge Skeptics team.

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Links from the talk:

I Can Science That’s Experiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKTzNtvfkvU

Cambridge Skeptics Measure the Radius of the Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2tyfuTkvgo

A Visualization of the 2021 Solstice Observations by ion https://solstice2021.heh.fi/

3D Sim of Solstice data from I Can Science That – Globe Earth – Michael Dam Olsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO7GmwBPQJU

Flat Earth OR Why Do People Reject Science? – Philosophy Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGvGQSazaTM

Flat Earth “Science” — Wrong, but not Stupid – Sabine Hossenfelder https://youtu.be/f8DQSM-b2cc

Circular Reasoning The Rise of Flat Earth Belief – Michael Marshall https://youtu.be/ZvPNVCdWW9w

Flat-Smacked! Converting to Flat Eartherism https://osf.io/qpnjm/download?format=pdf

Differential susceptibility to misleading flat earth arguments on youtube https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15213269.2019.1669461

Conspiracy Theorizing and Religious Motivated Reasoning: Why the Earth ‘Must’ Be Flat https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2346/82666/OLSHANSKY-THESIS-2018.pdf?sequence=1

Understanding conspiracy theories https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/pops.12568

The psychology of conspiracy theories https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963721417718261

American Flat Earth Theory: Anti-Intellectualism, Fundamentalism and Conspiracy Theory https://pilotscholars.up.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=hst_studpubs

Flat Earthers: Social Data on The Wildest Conspiracy Theory Yet https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/react-flat-earthers/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=react&utm_term=other&utm_campaign=08_2017_entertainment_blog

Only Two-Thirds Of American Millennials Believe The Earth Is Round https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/04/04/only-two-thirds-of-american-millennials-believe-the-earth-is-round/?sh=17cd03517ec6 Leaning tower illusion http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Leaning_tower_illusion

Rebuttals to Eric Dubay’s “200 Proofs Earth is not a Spinning Ball” https://flatearth.ws/eric-dubay 200 Proofs Debunked – GreaterSapien https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6NZVizM65rs_nt8SuzXqwqf7XNDMLKB7

Zetetic astronomy. Earth not a globe! by ‘Parallax’. https://ia802705.us.archive.org/30/items/zeteticastronom00rowbgoog/zeteticastronom00rowbgoog.pdf

One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe by William Carpenter https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55387/55387-h/55387-h.htm

A Stranger’s Guide to Flat Earth | 21 Questions and Answers (Proving The Earth Is Flat) – ODD TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0xClWgidZU

Flat Earth Ultimate Litmus Test Extended with Questions & Answers (Marty Leeds Live & Truth Center) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy9GEJY3ohg