[Mr. Douglas]

Those youtube videos on the earth being flat are actually a fascinating phenomenon. Some of them are VERY well done, and if you don’t pay attention or are abnormally gullible, they will convince you the earth IS flat.

I think they are an experiment to show how easy it is to dupe people about something that should be pretty cast in concrete. There may be even more nefarious goals around causing people to not believe anything at all.

[samtheman]

Those youtube videos on the earth being flat are actually a fascinating phenomenon. Some of them are VERY well done, and if you don’t pay attention or are abnormally gullible, they will convince you the earth IS flat.

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Do they ever mention the “edge of the world”? Do they claim to have visited it? Do they have photos of it?

[rollo tomasi]

Flat earth people pick "holes" about space travel, moon landings, sun rays, horizons, and such that raises questions. Gullible people can fall for this and some can be highly educated.

When questions are asked about flat earthers, their whole story just falls apart. If you click you will see how patient Molyneux is.

[SE Mom]

Bingo.

[TankerKC]

I think they are an experiment to show how easy it is to dupe people about something that should be pretty cast in concrete.

In my early days here, there was another poster here (Michael Rivero) who used to push the craziest hoaxes.

Part of his arguments was, "look at how many people believe me".

So, I posted a few threads to show how easy it was to pull folks in.

It is really, really easy. Examples:

Float plane crashes in river

3 killed in N.J. plane crash