But they are still wrong.
[quote]Why is it sometimes so hard to convince someone that the world is indeed a globe, or that climate change is actually caused by human activity, despite the overwhelming evidence?
Scientists think they might have the answer, and it's less to do with lack of understanding, and more to do with the feedback they're getting.
Getting positive or negative reactions to something you do or say is a greater influence on your thinking than logic and reasoning, the new research suggests – so if you're in a group of like-minded people, that's going to reinforce your thinking.
Receiving good feedback also encourages us to think we know more than we actually do.
In other words, the more sure we become that our current position is right, the less likely we are to take into account other opinions or even cold, hard scientific data.
"If you think you know a lot about something, even though you don't, you're less likely to be curious enough to explore the topic further, and will fail to learn how little you know," says one of the team members behind the new study, Louis Marti from the University of California, Berkeley.[/quote]
https://www.sciencealert.com/feedback-study-explains-why-false-beliefs-stick
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Best way to deal with Flat Earth believers: 1. Put them all in a big boat. 2. Tell them to sail it to the edge of the world. 3. Either they figure out the truth, or they search forever and we're rid of them.
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I like to believe that Flat Earthers don't actually think that the Earth is flat, but simply want to make it clear to us that we shouldn't simply believe whatever the media tells us.
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There are more like minded people thinking earth is a globe. Which means larger groups of people gathered together. More people give each other more positive reinforcement on the issue.
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It’s a logical fallacy called belief persistence. Essentially once the mind forms a belief it tends to keep that belief even in the face of hard evidence to the contrary...Explains a lot about politics
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Out of everyone that will be part of the first lunar colony, not one of them will be a flat earther.