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but religious zealots are, right? when people believe things simply on the grounds that they dont believe anything the established world of science tell them, they are dangerous as grossly false ideas start to take root.

those are just naive or stupid. flat earthers a dangerous, they usually hold a raft of nonsense to be true (see above), then deliberately ignore centuries of science simply because "they" tell us the world is a globe. they have a bunch of half-reasonable sounding arguments to try and convince...

probably since they are ignorant, uneducated and free to make up any old illogical nonsense in their head.

yeah, except when Newton tossed out concept of pure light, luminiferous aether was disgarded by relativity, or quantum mechanics discredited pretty much everything we thought we understood about matter and the universe. fact is you dont know much about science, so dont think it exists. to bad...

claiming vested interests is utter dribble. the greeks understood the earth the be a sphere, only recent idea that is wasnt by people not wanting to accept science. science has a healthy habit of discarding hypothesis and theories that dont fit new evidence, some of Einstein's work has been...

i dont think there is "space" in flat earth theory. we're on a disk with some glowing orbs moving around, called Sun and Moon and a background of stars fixed to some imaginary ceiling. i dont think people have cottoned on yet, its a variation on creationism.