Mike Hughes And The Flat Earth Theories That Led Him To Launch A Rocket

But Why Do They Believe?

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Part of this belief is steeped in an attempt to fight against mean-world syndrome. The idea that TV, movies, and radio, make the world seem worst than it is. “The reason they embrace these notions that the Boston Marathon bombing or Sandy Hook never happened, [is that] they don’t want to live in a world that innocent school children can go to school and end up dead on a classroom floor,” Ninamary Maginnis told Motherboard.

Maginnis attended the Flat Earth conference in the hope of reconnecting with a niece who had fallen into the flat-earther trap. But it’s also about celebrity endorsements…