Empirical and historical evidence fails to persuade flat Earth believers
Evidence
Her remark that navigation in seafaring has been based on the curvature of the earth for centuries, if not millennia, impresses him just as little as her remark that at the sea the curvature of the earth can be seen easily with binoculars after all. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 45
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Disconfirming evidence rarely topples deeply held doctrines and worldviews. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 94