“I’ve never seen anything grow this fast,” says Robbie Davidson, the founder of the Dallas conference. It’s been the subject of a Netflix documentary and has been endorsed by figures including the rapper B.o.B.Įach year, more flat-Earth events fill the calendar, organizers say. The flat-Earth community has its own celebrities, music, merchandise - and a weighty catalog of pseudo-scientific theories. There’s no clear study indicating how many people have been convinced - and flat Earthers like Weiss will tell you without evidence there are millions more in the closet anyway, including Hollywood A-listers and commercial airline pilots - but online communities have hundreds of thousands of followers and YouTube is inundated with flat-Earth content creators, whose productions reach millions.Ī YouGov survey of more than 8,000 American adults suggested last year that as many as one in six Americans are not entirely certain the world is round, while a 2019 Datafolha Institute survey of more than 2,000 Brazilian adults indicated that 7% of people in that country reject that concept, according to local media. People in every pocket of this spherical planet are rejecting science and spreading the word that the Earth is flat. But remarkably, the hundreds of flat Earthers at the Dallas gathering were just a small portion of the movement. On a clear day, the curvature of the Earth can be seen from an airplane window. Because guess what, our old friends… we lost a lot of friends.” “We can collaborate, we can make new friends. “We’ve all been communicating online (but) this brings us together so we can shake hands and give each other hugs,” says Weiss. And believers reveled in an opportunity to meet several of the movement’s most influential minds. Speakers gave presentations including “Space is Fake” and “Testing The Moon: A Globe Lie Perspective.” Awards for the year’s best flat Earth-related videos were handed out. The event’s schedule resembled any corporate conference, with some fairly noticeable twists.
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