Flat Earthers Are Right About One Thing

I Watched 100 Hours Of Flat Earth Debates (So You Don’t Have To)

Andrew R. French
12 min readApr 13, 2024

I hadn’t thought too much about Flat Earth Conspiracy Theorists until recently when I began to listen to Flat Earth debates, and I realized something that shook me. I used to think that Flat Earthers were just a bunch of ignorant fools with nothing better to do than spread crazy theories, but then I began to realize that some of them had some interesting arguments that appeared to have some validity.

I watched a few of the very popular Professor Dave series of YouTube videos that seemed to debunk their theories pretty thoroughly, as well as a debate between Professor Dave and the well-known Flat Earth proponent Dave Weiss. Then I began to watch and listen to a hundred or so hours of Flat Earth debates so I could truly understand the most important aspects of the Flat Earth belief system.

Very quickly I recognized a few Flat Earth proponents that seemed to be the bright stars of the group. As with any group, some Flat Earthers are very ignorant, and others seem well-read. The ones that were well-read had at least a surface level understanding of basic…

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