kosmos: Mark Sargent (flat Earth proponent)

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Mark Kendall Sargent (born c. 1968) is an American conspiracy theorist, who is one of the leading proponents of, and recruiters for, the discredited flat Earth conspiracy theory in the United States. According to critics, his YouTube videos have greatly accelerated the popularization of modern flat Earth belief, one without scientific merit.

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Anti-scientific beliefs in a flat Earth are promoted by a number of organizations and individuals. The claims of modern flat Earth proponents are not based on scientific knowledge and are contrary to over two millennia of scientific consensus based on multiple confirming lines of evidence that Earth is roughly spherical. Flat Earth beliefs are classified by experts in philosophy and physics as a form of science denial. Flat Earth groups of the modern era date from the middle of the 20th century; some adherents are serious and some are not. Those who are serious are often motivated by religion or conspiracy theories. Through the use of social media, flat Earth theories have been increasingly…

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Behind the Curve is a 2018 documentary film about flat Earth believers in the United States. Directed by Daniel J. Clark, the film was released in the United States on November 15, 2018, and for wide release on Netflix in February 2019. The documentary details ideas of the flat Earth from different perspectives, including prominent flat-Earthers Mark Sargent and Patricia Steere, as well as astrophysicists from universities including UCLA and Caltech. It features clips from the 2017 International Flat Earth Conference, held in North Carolina, US, which attracted hundreds of attendees from around the globe (sic).

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Discursive Strategies of Delegitimizing Science in TikTok Videos on Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory in Serbia

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The “Global” Deception: Flat-Earth Conspiracy Theory between Science and Religion. The article focuses on flat earthism, one of the most well-known contemporary conspiracy theories in popular culture. According to proponents of this theory, which has found a growing international following in recent years, political institutions such as the U.S. government and scientific institutions such as NASA would operate to deceive humanity about the real shape of our planet and the universe in which we live. In countering the data acquired by modern science and common sense knowledge, flat earthism stands as a heterodox theory and a radical critique of the authority of socially legitimized epistemic…

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Flat Earth, spirits and conspiracy theories – experience can shape even extraordinary beliefs

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Flat Earth, spirits and conspiracy theories – experience can shape even extraordinary beliefs

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Jews have faced antisemitism and discrimination in universities and campuses in the United States, from the founding of universities in the Thirteen Colonies until the present day, in varying intensities. From the early 20th century until the 1960s, indirect quotas were placed on Jewish admissions. Quotas were first placed on Jews by elite universities such as Columbia, Harvard and Yale, and were prevalent as late as the 1960s in universities such as Stanford. A resurgence of antisemitism in US higher education in the early 21st century was directed in part by the growth of Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism by university students and facult in opposition to Israeli actions in the context of the…