Why Do People Believe The Earth Is Flat?

The insidious, anti-science undertones that are growing conspiracy theories across the globe

A Renaissance Writer
Science and Philosophy
5 min readJul 22, 2020

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A popular depiction of the ‘flat Earth’

You’ll often hear it said that more people believe the Earth is flat today than did in the Middle Ages. In our age of the internet, antibiotics, germ theory and gene splicing, hundreds of thousands of people still believe that the Earth is…

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A Renaissance Writer
Science and Philosophy

I love all things Italian Renaissance, cooking and writing. I can often be found reading, drinking espresso and working on too many things at once