Since that earlier article, I’ve noticed more flat-earthers have turned their attention to COVID-19. I expressed my surprise that so few flat-earthers seemed to have diverted their attention to COVID-19. But truth isn’t determined by debate, especially when the debate is conducted in such a dishonest way.Įarly in the COVID-19 lockdown of much of the country, I commented that some flat-earthers had turned to talking more about COVID-19 than about flat earth.

Therefore, if one can set out of bounds the best evidence for the earth being a globe, then one is well on his way to winning a debate about the earth’s shape.

I can understand flat-earthers’ motivation in this, because even a little knowledge of astronomy torpedoes any notion that the earth is flat. This approach appears to be an intentional strategy to exclude any astronomical evidences when discussing the earth’s shape. With its emphasis on experimentation, flat-earthers use their very restrictive definition of the scientific method to exclude from science an observational approach to testing ideas, which leads them to conclude that astronomy is not a science. Flat-earthers conclude this is the one and only way of doing science. I pointed out that flat-earthers cite a very simplified version of the scientific method, one that is framed for laboratory science, perhaps at the high school level. Earlier this year I wrote about the scientific method and the flat earth movement.

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