12/17/2023 0 Comments Is trump a flat eartherThis can lead to confirmation bias and an irrational way of thinking. This is the process whereby, when a person is presented with ideas or information which are contrary to their beliefs, this causes a dissonance or discomfort and, in order to restore balance, we sometimes dismiss the new information out of hand and instead seek to justify our existing ideas. This denial of rationality and facts is part of what psychologists call cognitive dissonance. Yet when presented with irrefutable evidence to the contrary, “Flat Earthers” refuse to engage with it and instead seek out any information to try to justify their position. The fact that the earth is curved as opposed to flat is in most people’s reality a solid, proven fact and has been for hundreds if not thousands of years. After setting it up however the device, not unsurprisingly, showed movement (15 degrees per hour for you science geeks) – to which his response was: “We were taken aback, it’s a problem and one which we will set out to disprove.” In other words there is nothing you can do or no evidence you can provide me with that will make me reconsider my position. A leading light in the movement informs us that they have recently purchased a “Ring Laser Gyroscope” for a cost of 20,000 dollars with which they will be able to prove that the earth does not move. There is a scene from the Netflix documentary “Behind the Curve “which is about the growing phenomenon of the Flat Earth Movement.
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