In an age of rising conspiracy theories—voter fraud, QAnon, anti-vaxxers, chemtrails—Flat Earth might be the most foundational conspiracy theory of them all.

The flat Earth theory is an archaic conception that the Earth is shaped as a plane or a disk. The idea was first seen in ancient cultures including the Romans until the classical period.

That’s exactly right. I believe no other conspiracy theories. Flat Earth is the one.’ Where Flat Earth’s future lies is recruiting from other, more popular conspiracy theories.

Flat-Earth adherents tend to have similar beliefs as those who believe in other conspiracy theories, experts say. Most have an alternative view of some big or important fact and a vague ...

The draw of conspiracy. Flat-Earth theories aren't new; in the modern era, they date back to an English writer named Samuel Rowbotham, who came up with a variety of creative interpretations of ...

The Flat Earth movement — by which I mean the evergreen alternate scientific/conspiracy theory that posits that the earth is a flat disc — has been around since the late 19 th century.

The flat Earth belief as a kind of conspiracy theory popped up again in the mid-1800s in England. The Flat Earth Society was founded in 1956. "It certainly is one of the oldest conspiracy theories ...

But “once you get into flat earth, the other (conspiracy theories) get knocked down into another tier,” says Mark Sargent, a filmmaker and stalwart of the movement who was featured in the 2018 ...

Off the Edge is not a book about conspiracy theories, exactly. It does get there, but really it is a book about the history of the Flat Earth movement as the sort of original conspiracy theory.

Two women wearing Flat Earth T-shirts at a "flat-earther" meetup on March 25, in Orange County, California Barcroft Media via Getty Images Support for the Flat Earth movement has been exploding in ...