The Flat Earth Society has become a byword for sticking your head in the sand, whatever the scientific facts.

现在，这个“平坦地球协会”俨然是无视科学、固步自封的代名词了。

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The Flat Earth Society was originally formed as the Universal Zetetic Society in 1884, after the Greek word zeteo, "to seek".

平坦地球协会的前身是1884年成立的世界探究协会（Universal Zetetic Society），zetetic源自希腊语zeteo，意为“探寻”。

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Critics of the Flat Earth Society say that its members simply deny any evidence that conflicts with their world view without offering real alternative hypotheses.

地平协会的批评家说，该协会的成员只是简单地否认任何与其世界观相悖的证据，却不提供任何其他假说来解释这些证据。

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It sits flat on the ground with the bottom open to the earth.

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The health stuff gets us pretty quickly to the flat earth stuff.

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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.

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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.

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