Stupid Things That Stupid People Believe
We live in an age of science and reason. We've conquered ignorance in almost all it's forms, and every day we push the frontiers of human understanding as we look out into the stars, and deep into the structure of subatomic particles. They found the Higgs Boson this year, and a few months ago, there were hints that scientists at CERN may be on the way to isolating and cracking the mystery of dark matter.
I consider myself a reasonable person and a man of science, even if I'm not one of the visionaries pushing the boundaries, I take a keen interest both as an engineer and a student of the universe. So when I see people holding the obviously false as fact, it causes me actual physical pain.
So I'm going to use this little corner of the internet as my own personal soapbox to mock people clinging to ancient superstitions, pseudoscience, and phony religions invented in the last hundred years or so.
We'll be starting with the easiest target I can find, the Flat Earth Society.
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