Why people believe in "flat Earth"? Did they know that it is a pseudo science claim?

 Why people believe in "flat Earth"? Did they know that it is a pseudo science claim?

Hmm... something just popped up in my mind while I am listening to my "absolutely better reconstructed" Hi-Res music and thinking about this discussion in head-fi.

Why people believe in "flat Earth"?

Did someone (supposed-to-be an "expert") show some "scientific evidence" to those believers with some real-life experiments / demos to prove that the Earth is flat?

Did those believers experience similar "scientific evidence" in their daily life and these experiences confirm the "scientific evidence" the "expert" shown to them?

Would these "confirmation of the scientific evidence shown by the expert" cause these believers to truely believe in "flat Earth" and become a hardcore flat Earth believer because they do really experience the "evidence" themselves?

When other shows these "flat Earth believer" some objective and scientific evidence that the Earth is not flat, these hard-core believers would just consider those people who bring the supporting facts are mentally blocked and consider the supporting facts are not scientific and not objective without a second thought?

Banning Culture

One of the indications of these hardcore believers is that they refuse to listen to people who bring the facts that are not compatible with their believe. They would like to silence those people and remove all the facts those people bring in front of them as these facts make them feel unease.

For people who bring with supporting facts to debunk the questionable claim, they dare to listen to the other side, i.e. they are willing to listen to the "reasons" why the hardcore believers believe in the (pseudo) science claim as they really want to find out what's true (as they know that they could be wrong too).

Hardcore believers in "flat Earth", however, cannot withstand any chance they could be wrong. They don't want to be challenged with their beliefs. It would be very difficult to change their belief as they believe it wholeheartedly.

Right or Wrong? That's the question

People with critical thinking would like to find out "what's right and what's wrong". They don't really care who's right and who's wrong.

People who are hardcore "flat Earth" believer would just like to show that "they are right"

(source of the picture above: wikipedia)

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