There is a very strange trend among people to claim that the earth is in fact flat, and that there is a conspiracy in place to lie to, well, everyone, to make sure we all think the earth is in fact spherical.
I tend to think a lot of these people are really just attention seekers. People who are bored and who want some attention, or people that are just boring and find that a lot of people pay attention to them when they start talking about crazy shit!
Neil deGrasse Tyson broke down the flat earth conspiracy on the Joe Rogan podcast the other day. It was a really entertaining episode so I thought I’d share this clip for you to enjoy: