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The Flat Earth Report 11/16/2020
The Flat Earth Report 11/16/2020
\nTHE FLAT EARTH REPORT 11-16-2020\nWhat if we lived in a world without nukes or pandemics or earth killing asteroids?
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\nWelcome to flat earth, where none of the big fears are even real. the globe being fake is just the beginning.
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\nThis is the Flat Earth Report for 11-16-2020. 11/16, btw, is a very 9/11y number if you flip it upside down.
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\nCOVID IS FLAT.
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\n0) A new trend is to link lockdown protesters and anti-vaxers as "flat earthers", which the public takes to mean "anti-science", which is paradoxically countered with demands to "believe the experts", as though appeals to authority and other logical fallacies should be required to prove a fact-based proposition.
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\nRecently Mayor Lightfoot of Chicago had a bad dream that the world went flat because nobody believed the science anymore:
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\n"Thank God, science is back baby," she said with her hand on her forehand. The music becomes more upbeat and Lightfoot pats a globe of the Earth, saying "And the Earth is round, not flat."
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\nSpain\u2019s Health Minister criticized anti-vaxxers and coronavirus deniers. \u201cIf someone wants to keep insisting that the Earth is flat or that humans did not get to the Moon, go ahead, but anti-scientific attitudes are intolerable because they lie,\u201d he said. \u201cVaccines save lives, this has been widely proven. Vaccination is nothing new in Spain, every year 10 million people get immunized.\u201d
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\n1) The Deftones guitarist continues to be attacked for his non-belief in establishment science. which is what flat earthers are guilty of. not believing partisan science or unscientific claims dressed up as science.
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\n"Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter outs himself as a flat-earther" By Metal Hammer
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\nVaccines don\u2019t work, space doesn\u2019t exist and there are no nuclear weapons \u2013 Deftones\u2019 Stephen Carpenter reveals some \u2018interesting\u2019 theories
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\nStephen Carpenter is many things: guitarist and co-founder of Deftones, unorthodox riff machine, a committed weed smoker. And, it turns out, a flat-earther.
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\nCarpenter unveiled his \u2018maverick\u2019 worldview in a remarkable interview on the Tin Foil Hat With Sam Tripoli podcast (the clue\u2019s in the title). In it, the guitarist opted to fly in the face of decades, if not centuries, of scientific fact, claiming that space doesn\u2018t exist, there are no such things as nuclear weapons
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\n..so here's a trigger warning to those threatened by good news..he also said vaccines don't work but he doesn't seem to believe in covid so....