Internet has a lot of good things: almost instant communication arround the world, improvement of organization, improvement of business, access to information... But Internet's advantages must be used wisely, because all this potential can be used to a wrong purpose.
One little wrong usage of internet is something called "conspiracy believers", or stuff like this. It's not a big problem compared to other problems of internet, but it's important as well. This is about people that spread rumors or fake information arround internet, based on one idea. They, generally, say that most of thing that we believe are false, that the governments lie to us. Well, this is not foolish, maybe they lie. But things go further and further and they take profit of some usual thoughts of the people, for example that men were never on the Moon. In this example, they add firewood to the fire. But then, they start saying NASA isn't real, and then, what I'm going to focus on: Earth is flat and we live in a lie of the governments!
Well, well... This sound totall crazy, people on the XXI century who believes that the Earth is flat... But they really believe this. Well, some do, others just are looking for money on internet (this kind of publications has a lot of views). They think south pole is blocked by the governments to hide the truth, that all the space images are just virtual, that the Sun and the Moon move just above us... They believe in the Aristotelic cosmovision, of the VI century bC! There are some who follow llitterally the Holy Bible description of the Earth.
And this is how they imagine the Earth. The worse is that people who don't know nothing of science, they can believe all this stuff. Because the human mind, in our society, tends to believe that someone is lying to us. The feeling that you know more than the other people about how is the world, the feeling that you've been wakened up and you know the truth, is a feeling of superiority that we, humans, like. But the ones who start this kind of fake information, they don't even deserve to be mentioned. They are spreading fake knowledge arround the world, to people that have faith on them, and all they say is based on lies and eschepticism. Lying to ignorant people just to earn some money should be punished. They change how people see the world! This is just despicable.
If you don't believe that there's people who believes this, just click here.
PD: I do NOT believe that the Earth is flat.
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