Flat Earth -- Are People Getting Dumber?

Published: July 18, 2018, 2:30 a.m.

b'Are more people subscribing to the idea that the Earth is flat?\\n\\nHow does flat Earth relate to other conspiracies:\\n9/11Lizardoid aliens controlling the earthMandela Effect\\nHave these all been enabled by the Web?\\n\\nAre they spread by people trying to refute them?\\n\\nMore and More Americans are Starting to Believe Earth is Flat\\n\\nIn America interest in the flat-Earth movement appears to be growing. In September Bobby Ray Simmons Jr., a rapper also known as B.o.B, launched a crowd-funding campaign to send satellites into orbit to determine the Earth\\u2019s shape. On November 9th, 500 \\u201cflat-Earthers\\u201d assembled in North Carolina for the first annual Flat Earth International Conference. Data from Google Trends show that in the past two years, searches for \\u201cflat earth\\u201d have more than tripled.\\n\\nThe Flynn Effect is the observation that IQ scores have been going up.\\n\\nUnfortunately there may be evidence that that trend is not as reliable as it used to be.\\xa0\\n\\nSo is it wrong to do a show on this subject? Are we just encouraging people to believe stupid things and become dumber?\\xa0\\n\\nWT 457-774\\n\\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\\n\\nVideos and Images from Pixabay.com and other sources.'