Three-Day 'Flat Earthers' Convention

It's often believed that Columbus discovered that Earth is round instead of flat in 1492. This is, however, wrong. Columbus and his contemporaries all knew Earth was round long before he ever set sail; our planet being oval shaped is a theory that is earliest reliably documented in Greece during the 6th century before Christ. In Europe it was Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Eratosthenes among thousands of other scientists and philosophers who molded the theory of a globe-shaped world. In India and in many Muslim countries, this belief took shape for centuries, in some cases even before Europe ... I couldn't even begin to count the monumental number of times circumnavigations were performed to prove it.

So why are we still arguing about whether the Earth is flat or not in 2018? We can tell by the Moon, by the varying star constellations, the existence of time zones, by images from space (taken way before CGI existed) and by an infinite quantity of other reasons. And still, there's a growing number of conspiracy theorists ('Flat Earthers', as they call themselves) who believe these millenniums of scientific discoveries, the millions of scientists and the exhaustible and colossal volume of experiments are all but lies.

Today I won't write about the evident brainlessness and absurdity of this developing dogma (even among several educated people). I'll leave that for your own judgment to opine. Today I'll just introduce you to Harry T. Dyer, a lecturer in education at the University of East Anglia, who just attended the three-day long 'Flat Earth Convention', which took place in Central Birmingham, UK, on the last days of April.

This is what he has to say about it.