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by Lammy 2214 days ago
If it were trivially provable to these people they wouldn't question it.
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I'm sure we all wish that were true.

There are people who have flown around the world many times who have gone down the flat earth rabbit hole.

Unfortunately the people who aren't confident they can actually learn about what they are afraid of, or correctly judge probabilities of things being true, spend their energy choosing who to believe instead of gathering information and forming a coherent understanding.