The Greatest Deception on Earth

@ElwoodBlues Quite apart from trying to persuade Flat-Earthists of the error of their ways (impossible because they do not want to think otherwise), those are impressive photographs!

What intrigues me is why these people are so determined to be seen as right and that everyone else either agrees with them or are liars, they go to such trouble to create all sorts of artistic web-sites to promulgate their case. What do they gain from it?

@ArishMell Yeah, those Lake Ponchartrain curving power lines are amazing. It's clearly a very long telephoto lens to compress so many towers together.

I don't know what they get out of their beliefs. There does seem to be a strong current of anti-expert sentiment in the US. On the left there's the "essential oils" & "healing crystals" crowd; on the right there's denial of evolution, climate change; all kinds of craziness.

Science has greatly increased our lifetimes and taken most of the backbreaking work and much of the drudgery out of our lives; it's amazing how many people are willing to reject science while taking for granted its many many benefits.

@ElwoodBlues There's a goodly amount of the oils-and-crystals stuff in the UK too but a lot of that is encouraged commercially, and by the land having so many extremely ancient sites that attract people who seem to think they can believe spiritually for whoever built them!

I don't think we have too many of those deniers. They are about but not very noticeable. Some American organisations I call "commercial creationists" wanted to muscle in on the English education system when that was largely farmed out to so-called "academy trusts" (businesses!). They were given short shrift, and failed because schools have to follow at a minimum, a national curriculum and teaching-quality standards; and your progress through schools ends in nation-wide school-leaving examinations in most subjects.

In either case there is little or no specific political bias here to any of these beliefs; largely I suppose because the several British political parties broadly agree on matters such as the climate, and just bicker over how to get there, and how fast.

It is very ironical though how the most rabidly anti-science campaigners all use the Internet to push their ideas, making me wonder how much or how little science and engineering they were ever taught. Or perhaps they were taught, but they failed to learn!