Exactlty. I found this a really uplifting story.

Kudos to the guy for admitting he was wrong, but I wouldn't celebrate it too much.

If they're able to disregard and misinterpret all the available proof regarding Earth's shape, something is fundamentally wrong. Either they lack the... mental acuity to deal with abstract concepts, or they're severely lacking in critical thinking.

At least the second one can be overcome if one commits to learning in a structured way, but the first one...

He dug in his heels and refused any facts and evidence until someone else spent a pile of money to give him something he could no longer argue with.

Yes, he finally admitted the earth may not be flat. Things everyone with a brain already knew. Refusing to listen to experts and insisting you know better until you personally are given special treatment to be shown you are wrong is not something to be applauded.

Fuck this guy for taking it this far.

I think that everyone has forfeited the right to be taken seriously if they simply refuse to acknowledge proven facts until there is no way left to hold on to their crude claims. I think it is even dangerous to take this seriously, because it legitimizes hostility towards science and ultimately harms an objective public discourse based on verifiable arguments. Of course, everyone should be free to express their opinion, but they must also be held accountable for their actions.

I think the efforts of climate change deniers are a especially vivid example of the danger posed by the normalization of irrational pseudo-arguments and factually untenable denialism. This issue, like many others, is largely beyond direct human experience, but that does not mean that climate change is not real. So you can't even fly these people to the melting glaciers to convince them, which is out of the question anyway because their denialism is actually motivated by purely selfish goals, namely the avoidance of measures to combat climate change that would harm their financial interests or threaten their lifestyle. In such cases I think that it is perfectly legitimate to simply dismiss these outlandish claims as nonsense and expose their authors as mere charlatans.

Still gets closer to the truth than calling it flat.

The hard part isn't being a dumbass, the hard part is being a 'well known' dumbass

What they failed to mention in the article is that the four flat earthers didn't have a return ticket.

If I shrunk it down to the same size the earth would be smoother than a billiard ball.

Well the problem with flat earthers has never been lack of evidence, its mental illness and gulibility

A lot of flat earthers when asked if they want to go, refused. What a bunch of idiots, that trip is expensive and makes you the coolest person in the room.

I second you. Let’s start a YT channel and contact Pastor Duffy for a ticket later.

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That's the point, yes.

Darwin would have to disagree.

Heck a large part our planets science history were considered morons when they proposed ideas.

This guy trully is a moron. But the human races history of collective judgement is far from good.

can't ask people about their personal beliefs directly. you could form it from a series of questions though.

• are you willing to travel across the globe for client needs?
• how many flights would it take you to get from here to x if you flew around the planet?
• what shape is our planet?

They believe the south pole is the edge of the earth, so a 24 hour earth is only possible in the north pole

In many flat earth models they envision the arctic as the center and Antarctica as the rim, in which case 24h daylight is possible in the former but not the latter.

Because its 2024. The mentally insane have way more ability to be heard then ever.

Prior to the 2000s they never had much option to talk to each other.