[VIDEO] Flat Earth: A Measured Response - hbomberguy - General

https://youtu.be/2gFsOoKAHZg

Everything is fake but why waste energy when all you have to do is take the articles you claim fake and make a small edit to add it to your trusty Power Point project to present it as it were your own work? No matter how many alternate motivations and mindsets this guy covered, I feel I will never understand these flatty guys. And why only the Earth has to be flat but not the rest of the Universe? At this point I don't expect common sense when no matter how much info you can come with but It is like all you need to do is launch your own satellite to the "edge" or "space" and follow its track to be disappointed at the results. Which would be also stressing to watch since the average rocket scientist in there tried to launch himself into orbit with pressurized water bottles.

Pretty good and entertaining in-depth look at such a strange delusion. Although the conspiracy theories about the U2 made for a weird tangent.

Thumbnail makes it look like Sobek is his new Youtube Skeptic OC.

gonna sacrifice some globeheads to the cum god 2nite who's with me fellas

The whole flat earth crap reminds me a lot of climate change deniers, creationists, and IQ believers. It essentially boils down to people not fully understanding the science, and instead of admitting they don't know enough to make the judgement, decide they must be right and the people who actually do understand the material are wrong.

Huh?

The only difference is that the climate change deniers and IQ believers decide this shit on their own, while creationists just let a several thousand year old book decide it for them. And yes, I know there's plenty of overlap between them and other conspiracy believers - but you can't so easily make a case that the text of the bible says global warming is fake as you can that it says that god created the world in six days. It's just that distrust of science tends to multiply on itself. If you're so easily willing to write off an entire branch of science wholesale, it's not much of a leap for you to write off other branches of science too. TLDR: while not all climate change deniers, anti-vaccers, and flat earthers start off as evolution deniers, its easy to see why so many of them do.

IQ may be controversial in some respects but I can't think of any position regarding IQ that would be at all appropriate to equate to flat earthers or climate deniers.

It's like the flat earthers took the quote "Question everything" but didn't realize that meant if the evidence was solid, you could move on to something else instead of assuming that it was a lie.

And if someone that isn't "big government" makes a claim based on their own """research""", that's clearly more believable than whatever the paid shill scientist community says

https://i.imgur.com/HuFXl6q.jpg

I think some of you guys are missing that flat-earth people tend to believe a multitude of insane bullshit all at once. So SO many of the ones I've encountered are at least PARTLY inspired by religion. For some reason they seem to think a Universe that operated on their model of disc-earths and firmaments and spotlight suns and antarctic ice walls would be impossible to explain naturally, and that's why "the truth is being suppressed." It really takes a special brand of Dunning-Kruger, because they throw out EVERY concept of objectivity to reach their conclusions. It all snowballs, because believing in a flat earth almost NECESSARILY makes you a conspiracy theorist. It's not possible to believe something this counter to common knowledge in light of all scientific discovery and believe every scientist and governing body on the planet is merely MISTAKEN when so much of our technology DEPENDS on things like space travel and GPS satellites and every few months we get footage of some new thing NASA did on Mars or to some peanut-shaped cometoid. So fully prepare for these guys to be climate deniers, young-earth creationists, chemtrail nuts, anti-vaxxers, Illuminati... These are people who have thrown out rationality wholesale.

IQ is generally a poor measure and often times falls into a very shallow pit. Its ome of the biggest examples of correlation does not equal causation and just like bone studies, was used in its early days to justify racism.

I'm pretty sure he meant the "blacks' IQ is inferior" thing

IQ is generally useful when it comes to psychology. I think the issue is that the average person doesn't know what it means or what to do with it. It's true that correlation does not equal causation but correlation is often how "soft-science" fields like psychology operate. Correlating measures like IQ with other factors can help us understand psychological conditions and how to treat them.

I mean, yeah, the Soft Science use Correlation for Causation, and that's why nearly every paper produced cannot be replicated.

Yes this was more what I was referring to when I mention IQ. I probably shouldn't have said believers since IQ is a somewhat useful metric, but the problem is people radically overestimate how accurate it is, how much environment and education factors in, and the idea that it's actually possible to summarize human intellect into a three digit number. It can be useful within the psychiatric field, especially in the diagnosis of mental disability, but the value certain spheres give it is far greater than it's actual scientific value. For the sake of making my original post clearer, I've changed the statement, but left the original in strikethrough.

Yeah. I'm proof of that. I got tested when I was in like 9th grade (it was part of a Vanderbilt research program on Autism), and I scored 144. I sure as hell wasn't using most of those IQ points though, given that at the time I was still a creationist.

I would not be surprised if people believe this only because it's outside of the norm.