There's a growing, bewildering movement of folks who reject the most basic learnings of science in favor of conspiracy theories and hocus pocus—as a science journalist, I regularly get emails from people who firmly believe the Earth is flat, as shocking as that may seem. I recently chatted with Brian Cox, host of BBC science show and podcast The Infinite Monkey Cage and a physics professor at University of Manchester, about the emergence of these alarming ideas and other trends in science. ....
https://gizmodo.com/we-asked-celeb-physicist-brian-cox-about-flat-earth-con-1827206861
https://gizmodo.com/we-asked-celeb-physicist-brian-cox-about-flat-earth-con-1827206861
