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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 835420">If I may be permitted an OT, the number of people who believe the earth is flat is increasing thanks to these guys <a href="https://www.tfes.org/" target="_blank">https://www.tfes.org/</a> and others like them.  The recent Netflix documentary, "Behind the Curve" <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81015076" target="_blank">https://www.netflix.com/title/81015076</a>, rather than focusing on these "theorists" as either nuts or snake oil salesmen selling conspiracies in exchange for clicks and eyeballs, took a "journalistic" tone where a neutral, and thereby serious, consideration was give to these "theories" in equal time with actual scientists.Not everything is worthy of journalistic consideration.It fits this moment in time, selling consipiracy and confirmation bias, while giving science and vetted research into facts short shrift.  Of course making sh*t up out of whole cloth has much lower production costs.</blockquote>

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