I attend meetings at our local Sceptics in the Pub circle, great fun, if your in the UK do look it up has branches all over. A young chap who was doing his PhD into the Psychology of cults had done some in-depth research on Flat Earthers we all starting laughing during his presentation but the sheer detail of the work done by Davidson, Marble and the rest of them is truly remarkable. Began to feel quite hard done by there is only one round Earth theory but the flat Earthers have lots some are quite beautiful with spheres and domes etc., schisms and splits are appearing with lots of quarrels and plotting, you don’t get that at the Royal Observatory. In the end I just felt sad all that energy and creativity being wasted in pursuit of what? Maybe just that lovely feeling at the core of conspiracy theories, ‘We know something you don’t know’.
