“Flat Earth enables people to cast out all previous information that they didn’t want to believe and rebuild the world from scratch.” Across the …
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What we can learn from people who take the Flat Earth theory seriously
As many as 1 percent of Americans (that’s more than 3 million people) and 7 percent of Brazilians (11 million people) say they believe the Earth is flat, for example.
What they believe and why
“Flat Earth enables people to cast out all previous information that they didn’t want to believe and rebuild the world from scratch.”
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