![]() Rather than inviting us to laugh at them, the documentary explains the – and I mean this entirely sincerely – intellectual journey Flat Earthers take as they adopt a mindset that rejects conventional scientific knowledge in favour of YouTube videos questioning everything from the moon landings to the theory of gravity. ![]() It does an admirable job of portraying a group of people who are defined by isolation – partly by choice, and partly by ostracism. I was reminded of the importance of this question a few weeks ago, while watching the Netflix Flat Earth documentary Behind the Curve. If you can’t think of any, this doesn’t make your position stronger quite the opposite – when your belief is unfalsifiable, it becomes dogma. An important part of this process is asking yourself what piece of evidence would change your mind. ![]() I ask myself daily whether campaigning for a People’s Vote is the right thing to do, testing whether our arguments really hold water. Here’s a phrase you don’t hear often these days: I don’t believe my side has a monopoly on truth.
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