Flat-Earthers aren’t the only ones getting things wrong | Rebekah Higgitt

Any mention of flat-Earthers brings out the insults - and historical blunders

An article on this site yesterday on modern "flat-Earthers" gained plenty of interest. Most of the comments joined in with general hilarity about the gob-smacking stupidity of other people. The existence of (several) flat-Earth societies is certainly fascinating, but I was also slightly gobsmacked by the comparison drawn between those who today believe the Earth is flat and "Galileo's 17th century critics".

I mean, really? Are there really people out there who believe that Galileo showed that the Earth was round and that his critics denounced this view, "outraged by his heresy"? Especially people who like to laugh at others for getting their facts wrong. Are they stupid or something?