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Flat-Earthers, Ancient Astronaut Theorists, and the Battle to Control Knowledge

5/9/2018

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​I read a fascinating article at Ars Technica this week, originally published on The Conversation, about Flat Earthers and why people embrace obviously inaccurate scientific claims. Harry T. Dyer, a sociologist at the University of East Anglia, argues that the core issue at stake isn’t the shape of the Earth but rather who controls knowledge. Advocates for the Flat Earth theory are standing against what they perceive to be the tyrannical control of science and government over the creation and distribution of knowledge. He relates this to the work of the postmodernist philosopher Michel Focault, who argued that knowledge is created and controlled to legitimize those in power. For Dyer, Flat Earthers are expressing their rejection of the legitimacy of elite scientists and academics as holders of social prestige and power.
​Dyer spent a weekend watching a Flat Earth conference and studying the way that advocates of the theory talked about it and about science and society in the broader sense. I was struck by the similarity between Flat Earth rhetoric and that of other branches of the so-called alternatives to science, such as the ancient astronaut theory, Nephilim theory, lost civilization studies, etc. Here is Dyer discussing how Romanticism and the cult of celebrity serve in place of epistemology in Flat Earth circles. He is speaking of a debate that occurred between a group of physicists and several Flat Earthers:
A particular point of contention occurred when one of the physicists pleaded with the audience to avoid trusting YouTube and bloggers. The audience and the panel of flat-Earthers took exception to this, noting that “now we’ve got the Internet and mass communication … we’re not reliant on what the mainstream are telling us in newspapers, we can decide for ourselves.” It was readily apparent that the flat-Earthers were keen to separate knowledge from scientific institutions. […] Flat-Earthers were encouraged to trust “poetry, freedom, passion, vividness, creativity, and yearning” over the more clinical regurgitation of established theories and facts. Attendees were told that “hope changes everything,” and warned against blindly trusting what they were told. This is a narrative echoed by some of the celebrities who have used their power to back flat-Earth beliefs, such as the musician B.O.B, who tweeted: “Don’t believe what I say, research what I say.”
​This rhetoric is indistinguishable from that of the ancient astronaut or lost civilization theorists. But it also speaks to a paradox of modern democracy. B.O.B., heaven forfend, gets one thing right. He understands that when knowledge is the exclusive province of expensively trained professionals, it is no longer democratic. For the majority of people, there is no way to evaluate whether a scientific study’s findings are correct, and much of the work of science becomes a question of faith. B.O.B., disingenuously to be sure, dares his listeners to research his claims, providing a superficial democratic patina to his challenge to knowledge that mainstream science can’t match. Anyone can go on YouTube or read a blog and imagine that they are “researching” Flat Earth theory. But very few can access, read, or understand scientific articles in academic journals, much less critically evaluate their methodology to confirm whether the conclusions are justified.
 
Compare this to the role played by Erich von Däniken or Graham Hancock in posing as an intermediary between an interested but ignorant public on one hand and elite but out of touch scientists on the other. Both repeatedly claim not to be making claims but rather to be asking questions and raising possibilities, aping the language of democracy in order to question the knowledge industry’s grip on what makes knowledge legitimate. While their actual goal is anti-democratic—to replace one elite with another, namely themselves—the pose they strike is reminiscent of political revolutionaries who claim to act in the name of the people against a hated elite. 
31 Comments
flat earth my fudge coffin.
5/9/2018 10:11:19 am

The flat earth cult, has to be one of the most mind numbing & bloody idiotic belief systems doing the rounds at present.
I can see why You Tube was mentioned. One only has to see how even goodly astronomy lectures posted on YT, have their comment sections filled with the usual, 'NASA lies!', or 'CGI Earth!', etc, etc.
Flat earth comments are a cancer.
Yep, flat earth stuff is almost as idiotic as Wilcock's AA theorist garbage; Hoagie's ruins & Hancock's utter comet-flood bollocks!

Good luck finishing the book Jason. Cheers sir.

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DBW
5/9/2018 04:55:59 pm

I wouldnt use YT comments section as a reference point but agree with what you said. Flat earth cult is mindnumbingly idiotic belief !

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DAVID W.
5/9/2018 10:13:11 am

Pizza anyone?

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T. Franke link
5/9/2018 10:57:26 am

Yes! On 2/24/2018 I wrote the following comment in this blog:

I find it conspicuous that Erich von Däniken had his success exactly in the year 1968. Is it possible that the changes in societal and political atmosphere in these days made his success possible?

The revolt of 1968 had much to do with distrust against authorities and against conservative ways of looking at things. Is it possible that Erich von Däniken had success because this rather leftist distrust in scholarly and religious authorities and in conservative views opened the minds for his ideas?

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Americanegro
5/9/2018 02:31:50 pm

@T. Francke: First Von Daniken had to wait for Morning of the Magicians to be published (1960-4?) and read it, then knowing Von Daniken's history, probably to be released from jail.

While he might have thought "This is a fertile time for some charlatanism" it goes back much further, to the salon of Mr. Plunger and the utopian daydream of Mr. Kiplinger, as H.P. Grondine has told us more once? a dozen times?.

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ALTRIGHT
5/9/2018 11:58:22 am

Who pays for “science”? The establishment. Who pays for alternatives? Book buyers with their personal money. It is obvious which is more democratic.

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David Bradbury
5/9/2018 02:22:17 pm

Hitting the ground very very hard when you step off the roof of a tall building has nothing to do with democracy, but quite a lot to do with science.

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Kal
5/9/2018 12:16:37 pm

It would expend far much more energy than making a space program to fake one, and there is no rational thought to the flat earth goofiness, when all they'd have to do is go up in a jet or transit the ocean by ship, and they would clearly see with their eyes the Earth is round.

Knowledge doesn't always mean correct, true, or good knowledge. It is just knowledge. You can have badly constructed arguments, false facts, and incorrect data, unable to test it in theory.

Science and travel have tested the 'earth is round' and proven it beyond any doubt. At the poles there is some flattening, but that's very minor, and there is some ocean bulging caused by tides, from the pull of a real moon, we've landed on, and a sun.

"If you lie enough times, people will believe it." Mein Kmoph

This does not mean science lies. It means people have bias and can skew results.

Literary truth is somewhere there, as the rules aren't the same. A blooger who simply believes his own nonsense might convince others to do the same, if inclined.


"There's a sucker born every minute." PT Barnum's ad agent

"If you eliminate the impossible, the improbable must therefore be true." Accam's Razor

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V
5/9/2018 01:55:16 pm

"Round" is not an exact term, and I've always wondered why people use bulging to say that the Earth is not "round." The Earth is not a perfect sphere. "Round" means "approximating a sphere," and even with bulges, the Earth does THAT much.

You misattributed "If you lie enough times..." to Mein Kampf. Mein Kampf does not have this phrase in it, though it grows out of the "Big Lie" concept Hitler proposed.

"Science" cannot lie. Science is a methodology, not an end product. Bias can cause misinterpretations of the data collected by the scientific method, and results can be skewed by inaccurate use of the scientific method, but those aren't the lies of science, they're the mistruths--not always deliberate lies--of people.

"There's a sucker born every minute" was pretty certainly not said by anyone actually associated with PT Barnum. The closest it comes would be if it originated with David Hannum, referencing the Cardiff Giant, and Hannum tried to sue Barnum. Other possibilities are Joseph Bessimer, a con man who had nothing to do with Barnum at all, or Michael Cassius McDonald, who again...had nothing to do with Barnum. Was most certainly NOT "PT Barnum's ad agent" anymore than it was Barnum himself.

"If you eliminate the impossible..." is not Occam's Razor. It is from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four," 1890. Occam's Razor states that "when presented with competing hypothetical answers to a problem, one should select the one that makes the fewest assumptions." Not the simplest, not the tidiest, the one that makes the fewest assumptions.

You haven't even managed literary truth in this post, friend. Lots of easily-testable bad data, though.

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David Bradbury
5/9/2018 02:32:38 pm

Early versions of "there's a sucker born every minute" are found in England by 1835, as carny slang, particularly in reference to the reliable success of "thimble rigging" (aka the Shell Game)

David Bradbury
5/9/2018 05:52:06 pm

PS: Bearing in mind that this discussion relates to flat-earthers, it may be worth mentioning that the most common early alternative to the word "suckers" in that phrase was "flats".

Slang for "people who aren't sharp" ....

Ed wensell
5/14/2018 10:31:30 pm

God I regret reading this whole post.

Americanegro
5/9/2018 02:42:00 pm

No need for jet technology, use the ancient Greek method of climbing a mountain.

The Big Lie *as KAL presented it* is from Goebbels... Hitler's was the hyooge lie, Goebbels's was the repeated lie. No reason they couldn't be used together of course.

"Accam"? The mind wobbles.

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V
5/9/2018 01:33:02 pm

This is a matter of education being undervalued--because it's really not that hard to read scientific papers, even ones that aren't in one's own field of expertise--but it does take some training as to HOW. And while a lot of papers, particularly in engineering and "hard" sciences, assume that you can do certain levels of math, they still lay out the math they used, and that also can be researched.

Unfortunately, at least in the US, our literacy education focuses so much on narrative formats that even reading textbooks is a skill few really develop. Between that and insisting that the body of knowledge itself is "science," instead of emphasizing that "science" is the methodology we use to BUILD knowledge, it's no wonder people think of science as "aristocratic." Our entire society seems to reinforce that narrative, and it's bothered me for a long, long time. Science isn't "something scientists do," being a scientist is what you ARE when you USE science. It's really rather gnostic that way.

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Machala
5/9/2018 02:09:52 pm


“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

I swear, I always try to be open-minded about everything and not to be dismissive of the ideas of others - no matter how absurd they may sound - until I can ascertain the validity of their thought. That said, I cannot believe nor accept the absolute stupidity of Flat-Earthers ! Believing in Nephilim or Ancient Aliens makes more sense !

I can understand the anti-establishment rebellion - after all, I lived my late teens and early twenties during the 1960's where we ( much like today's youth ) questioned everything and trusted no one in authority. Indeed it was the Kennedy/King assassinations, the Vietnam War, (later) Watergate that shaped much of our distrust in politics, politicians, and authority of any kind.
Still, people give credence to some of the most bizarre theories because " they saw it on the internet, so it must be true" ! This defies not only logical thought, but has blurred the lines of reality that these fringe fanatics can no longer distinguish fantasy, fiction, and false facts from realism, rational thinking, and true science.
Young people are by nature, romantics, rebels and idealists. That is part of our life cycle, so to some degree, we excuse the follies of our youth. Those for whom there is no excuse, are the charlatans and con artists, who prey on the gullibility of the young and those 'adults' whose development has been arrested or who are embittered and afraid by the rapidity of change.

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Joe Scales link
5/9/2018 04:18:05 pm

Not quite on topic Machala, but I thought you'd find this interesting:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html

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Machala
5/9/2018 04:47:45 pm

Joe,
Thanks for that link. Before I comment on it, let me quote a self-descriptive paragraph from it:
"But they all share three distinct qualities. First, they are willing to disagree ferociously, but talk civilly, about nearly every meaningful subject: religion, abortion, immigration, the nature of consciousness. Second, in an age in which popular feelings about the way things ought to be often override facts about the way things actually are, each is determined to resist parroting what’s politically convenient. And third, some have paid for this commitment by being purged from institutions that have become increasingly hostile to unorthodox thought — and have found receptive audiences elsewhere...."

There's a damn good reason some of us have become "expats" ! Freedom to speak is as important as " Freedom of Speech ".

Hal
5/9/2018 06:56:05 pm

Machala, great comments.

Z
5/9/2018 08:06:18 pm

https://twitter.com/StephenSilver/status/993825186628718592

Joe Scales
5/9/2018 09:43:13 pm

Speaking of parroting the politically convenient...

Brady Yoon
5/9/2018 02:56:16 pm

Flat earthers aren’t actually serious though. They’re just really dumb trolls. If you asked them to take a polygraph they’d all fail. Nobody really believes it.

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AmericanGodsandEarths
5/9/2018 08:16:45 pm

Tell that to the Mad Scientist Yakub.

You would quarrel with the Prophet's (Peanut butter be upon him) Ascension from Mecca to Jerusalem?

Death and Resurrection?

The Earth is on the back of a giant turtle?

Virgin birth?

The faking of the moon landing?

The Lone Gunman?

Templars in the U.S. pre-Columbus?

People will believe anything, and they really believe it.

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Americanegro
5/10/2018 08:59:36 pm

Atlantis surrounded by mile-high walls. Ring a bell?

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Only Me
5/9/2018 03:17:07 pm

>>But very few can access, read, or understand scientific articles in academic journals, much less critically evaluate their methodology to confirm whether the conclusions are justified.<<

While this may be true to an extent, I've observed several online communities using various studies, reports and articles to bolster their arguments.

This is what makes the "now we’ve got the Internet and mass communication … we’re not reliant on what the mainstream are telling us in newspapers, we can decide for ourselves” line stand out to me. I find it odd that when it serves the cause, referencing scientists or any online study/report/article written by scientists, by anyone considered to be a leading voice, is generally accepted as "proof".

I thought the idea was to reject mainstream science?

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Doc Rock
5/9/2018 05:45:57 pm

The name of the game is to try to have your cake and eat it too. Fringe folks will reject any and all assertions by scientists until they find one that agrees with them or seems to support their position. Then it is solid gold.

Of course you can find some similar perspectives by more mainstream writers. They dismiss social science research as unscientific and a joke until they need some social science research to support some their assertions. Then it is solid gold.

It's also necessary to point out that science generally involves peer review and in many respects is more of a Democratic process than alternative self-published work.

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Graham
5/9/2018 09:00:26 pm

"now we’ve got the Internet and mass communication … we’re not reliant on what the mainstream are telling us in newspapers, we can decide for ourselves”

That reminds me of something I read about the time of the 2012 fiasco, one group of believers being interviewed stated that "We don't need leaders, we have the Internet."

What a lot of people forget is that Post-Modernism started out as 'Literary criticism' and then spread like kudzu to engulf everything around it. Combine that with the New Age notion that 'If it feels right, it is right.' and the notion that encountering ideas you disagree with can be physically harmful and you have a recipe for whats going on right now.

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Brian
5/9/2018 09:58:47 pm

The use of a dumbed-down and misplaced definition of "democratic" to undermine truth and reality sure seems to justify every anti-democratic warning there ever was. While democratic means can work, at least some of the time, to run a small group, or even a not-too-big society for a bit, can we ever teach these misguided sheeple that actual physical reality isn't created by consent? (pace Foucault and the other damned creators of post-modernism.)

Holey Cripes, I said when the internet first went commercial (amd when Facebook started up) that we were in deep crap, and here we are, nose deep and sinking fast. You mean there are flat-earth conferences attended by more than a couple of half-joking wankers? Frederick the Great was evidently right after all. All I want to do is hide and wait till the end.

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Kal
5/9/2018 10:23:03 pm

I believe the point was in my earlier post, sayings off the web and off TV and in Holmes or in science, might be garbled by bias. You cannot rely on the internet for all research, and should use proper sources.

Gerbels yes, but it was attributed to Hitler.

Wasn't Barnum, but it was attributed to him.

Wasn't Accam, but it was close enough for government work.

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Americanegro
5/10/2018 12:37:38 pm

You may not be making it better.

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V
5/13/2018 05:15:44 pm

If THAT was the point you wanted to make, you would have done better to do the more obvious, such as:

"You can't put anything that isn't true on the Internet." - Socrates

Also, please, PLEASE look up the names you are so terribly butchering. It actively hurts my eyes.

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An Anonymous Nerd
5/10/2018 10:20:31 pm

I increasingly am disturbed by the way the Fringe successfully has mixed up the political concept of Democracy with some notion of who has, or can have accurate information. (And ultimately the search for accurate information and accurate explanations for that information is really all science is.)

In the modern sense, Democracy boils down to

1 - the notion that the governed should have ultimate say over who governs them and, to a lesser degree, how; and

2 - that individuals are rights-bearing.

There are any number of different mechanisms by which Democratic countries around the world have implemented this concept.

Nothing in there suggests that individuals can construct their own realities. Just because you have the right, within broad limits, to say what you want, doesn't mean your right makes what you say accurate.

It then becomes the responsibility of those who have the knowledge of accurate information to make sure we know what we need to know to make good political decisions.

When Post-Modernism philosophy started to challenge the very notions of knowledge, reality, and accurate information, its practitioners probably thought they were ushering a new age of intellectual freedom, that went along with political freedom. "Vote how you want and think how you want!"

But alas all they did was create an environment where the best-funded, and most-convenient, information could flourish, regardless of accurate.

Oh brave new world that has such people in it.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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