In defense of flat earthers (2020)
I think the author of the post is on to something. It isn&#x27;t that he&#x27;s saying flat earthers have evidence or are saying something reasonable. He&#x27;s saying that the Western education system teaches people to memorize facts such as the roundness of the Earth without teaching process methodology to derive the roundness of the Earth.<p>Anyone who begins to question some of the facts they have been indoctrinated to memorize: (1) will not have a methodology for coming to a conclusion, past &quot;hypothesis&quot; and anecdote (2) will not have peers and close contacts who are able to refute the hypothesis, outside just insisting on the fact themselves, which itself isn&#x27;t credible or scientific.<p>One claim that the author makes is that this is a flaw in Western education systems. It would seem to me that Western education varies significantly. And I am not familiar enough with other types of education to know what alternatives are working better in different cultural contexts.