People share some interesting stories about how a flat earther was convinced that their views were wrong or at least they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A belief in ghosts could be a way to explain a strange experience while asleep. 'The Nightmare' by Johann Heinrich ...

Off the Edge is not a book about conspiracy theories, exactly. It does get there, but really it is a book about the history of the Flat Earth movement as the sort of original conspiracy theory. It is ...

Of all the conspiracy theories that litter the Internet, the flat Earth conspiracy is quite possibly the most curious. After all, the ancient Greeks figured out the planet's shape (and even its ...

Fernbach, Philip M.; Bogard, Jonathan E. Conspiracy Theory as Individual and Group Behavior: Observations from the Flat Earth International Conference. Topics in Cognitive Science. Apr2024, Vol. 16 ...

A recent study takes a closer look at what’s happening in the human mind when we really want to believe something.

This is why The Lord of the Rings actually follows better physics than flat earth claims. Tolkien created a fantasy world, ...

Wiz Khalifa has sparked debate after revealing that he subscribes to the long-debunked flat Earth theory. The Pittsburgh rapper made the revelation during a recent appearance on The Joe Budden Podcast ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Eli Elster, University of California, Davis (THE CONVERSATION) On Feb. 22, 2020, “Mad” ...