I’m not as concerned with how or why these people come up with these strange ideas as I am with the myriads of gullible people who accept them. For the former we have mental health professionals. What can we do about the latter?
I once heard or read an interesting comment by a scientist…probably one who is working on String Theory…that a large portion of what we *know* to be true is later proven to be false if you look at evolution of science. It is very hard to move someone from a dearly held belief to even accept that something else may be true. (Just look at how frantically Christians hold onto Christianity). Look at how trivialized Einstein was….Tesla was…Newton was…by the “scientific community” who then later (sometimes much much later) realized that they actually were on to something. It would be safe to assume that they were all called “lunatics” at one point in their lives and I know that both Newton and Tesla suffered breakdowns at points. It doesn’t mean that their contributions to science and math are any less.
There are also many scientist that run head long down one path that leads to no where. I don’t think that that means we should stop looking, asking questions, proving or disproving.
One of the points that this guy that is pounding the “Hollow Earth” theory makes is that there is no subduction on Mars and therefore there can be none of Earth either. Maybe. I still believe that math and physics fall more on the side that Earth is solid.
Have we actually been able to drill far enough to verify what Earth is made out of? No. I know that science has done the math and the physics to estimate what is in there but it is still in theory, please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
Remember back a couple of decades ago when we were all taught and told that the universe was shrinking? They worked the figures and discovered that we are expanding.
The only certainty in life is change…