What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?

[Rev. Rye]

Curious.

Any ideas?

How do they rationalise all the evidence of a round earth? It's the same as any group that wants to deny something really well-supported:






Really, the tactic is the same, whether it's flat-eartherism, germ theory denial (and its specifically HIV-denying cousin), climate change denial, Holocaust denial, or creationism: find the biggest smoking guns, take something that's either unclear or counter-intuitive, and obfuscate the shit out of it. And when that doesn't work, just do this:





Applications may change, but the broad outline is pretty much the same across the board.