• thesporkeffect@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    If I do it 10 times and each time the result is ‘flat’, and 99.99% of scientists in the field say it’s flat, at that point I would do some self evaluation to see why I was so hell bent on being wrong

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        8 months ago

        There’s a couple grifters who pretend (or are stupid enough) to think so yes. It’s like the “doctors” the anti vax guys point at

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          8 months ago

          yeah but… 0.01%? Maybe I’m delusionally optimistic but I can’t believe 1 in a 1000 people believes the earth is flat, let alone 1 in 1000 scientists

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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      8 months ago

      If I’m grifting people into giving me money to prove it’s flat I’ll keep doubling down until that teat runs dry.