The health stuff gets us pretty quickly to the flat earth stuff.
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He compares thinking otherwise to believing in a flat earth or creationism.
His rather presciently subtitled 2008 book Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media is an excellent, compelling read.
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Today's mortgage rates of around 5% are as low as we have seen since the late 1950s - and no economist (whether of the "flat earth" variety or not) expects interest rates to rise significantly.
The fact that so many supposed conservatives liken a belief in a gold standard as the monetary equivalent of membership in the Flat Earth Society shows just how far the American public has come from a true understanding of how money works within an economy.
"Their attitude is that we don't get it, we are flat-earth people, and they are in a hurry without time for all this, " says the publisher group's president, former congresswoman Patricia Schroeder.
Skilled navigators, they plotted their course by the stars, ocean and clouds, at a time when god-fearing Europeans still believed that the Earth was flat and they might fall off it if they sailed too far.
Unlike on Earth, however, Mars has no plate tectonics, so the Martian layers are flat and not disrupted as they would be on Earth.
The sound of feet, of bare soles, flat African feet pat-patting the earth.
Dr. DAVID BLACK (Marine Biologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography): About 50 percent of the earth's surface is made up of these big, flat plains of mud we know so little about.
They'd balance a spoon-shaped piece of magnetic rock on any flat surface, and since it was magnetic, the handle would swivel to align itself with the Earth's magnetic poles.
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