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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
By Weill, Kelly
- ISBN
- 9781643750682
- Publisher
- Algonquin
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Reviewed on January 1, 2022 | Social Sciences
A fringe theory dating to the mid-19th century holds that the Earth is not a globe, but a flat plane. Daily Beast reporter Weill traces the unlikely trajectory of this belief, from the seminal Flat Earthers Samuel Rowbotham (an English inventor) and John Dowie (founder of the planned community of Zion, IL), to the morass of conspiracy theories proliferating online in the era of Trump and QAnon. Kept alive for decades as much by satirists as by its few ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
