Flat Earth rising: meet the people casting aside 2,500 years of science – video
by Richard Sprenger, James Bullock, Alex Healey, Tom from on (#48FNQ)
Though not a new phenomenon, flat Earth theory has enjoyed a huge resurgence recently. A YouGov poll indicated that a third of Americans aged 18 to 24 were unsure of the shape of our planet, in spite of scientific proofs from Pythagoras to Nasa. Why has this happened now, and what does it tell us about society today?