You can see the Earth isn't curved," says Neves, clutching a level to illustrate his point.
Next to him, Ricardo's Flat-Earth model shows the sun and Moon as little balls, equal in size, suspended above a disc-shaped planet. It calls the idea of a round Earth "humankind's greatest lie, dictated by the global elite."
"A malignant pseudo-science has corrupted the education system around the world," says another text he is carrying. Write that!" says Anderson Neves, a 50-year-old entrepreneur, who has come to Ricardo's restaurant armed with a pamphlet denouncing the "hoaxes" of Newton and Copernicus. Read also: YouTube demotes flat-earthers, conspiracy theoristsīrazilians who believe the Earth is flat are mostly men, often Catholics or evangelical Christians, and with relatively low levels of education, according to Datafolha.īut don't confuse education with knowledge, the Flat-Earthers warn. It is an argument they advance with varying interpretations of physics, optics and the Bible, dismissing all evidence to the contrary as a conspiracy. There, they are free to state what they believe, without fear of ridicule: that the Earth is a flat, stationary body.
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