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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
Maybe someday
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24/100Critics
61/100Scholars
Author:
Kelly Weill
Publisher:
Algonquin Books
Date:
February 22, 2022
A history of the Flat Earth movement and a look at the recent boom in conspiratorial thinking in America.
What The Reviewers Say
A surprisingly even-handed book, the title of which perfectly encapsulates disturbing implications of conspiracy theorists and their beliefs.
Extraordinary.
Weill traces the growth of the Flat Earth movement, from nineteenth-century Cambridgeshire to early-twentieth-century Illinois to its explosion on the internet.
[An] insightful and surprisingly empathetic survey of conspiracy theories on the history of Flat Earth theory.
