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THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Interestingly, most of people just believe in spherical Earth without ever checking anything, because society says so.

This is not an argument in favor of flat earth, but an argument that people around you can make you firmly believe absolutely anything without you ever bothering to check it by yourself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We stand on the shoulders of giants. I don't know how many of us repeated the experiments in our chemistry textbooks to prove that what was claimed was correct. A few piddling things here and there, but when did I get to build a nuclear bomb?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Sure enough, it's basically impossible to recreate human knowledge by checking everything yourself to see if it's true; but something so basic really is easy to verify.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Sure, but there comes a point where you either believe it, or you believe that there's a "world government" running the shots, telling every single country to teach the same wrong scientific facts, and literally NO ONE has ever fact checked anything or been a whistle blower about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah I like to question everything, which is the reason I know this. I investigated and saw the evidence myself.

It’s a little disappointing to me that most people aren’t this way.