Jared the Skeptic

You’ve seen them in the comments: “How come Artemis’s crew didn’t zoom in to the “underside” of the supposed globe to show people in Australia upside down? The mission was fake!” Folks, this is exactly the shot flat earthers keep demanding - a zoom from space straight down to the “bottom” of the globe, Australia front and center, upside down. Here’s the thing. Even with this absurd, physically impossible zoom, this is exactly what you’d see on a spherical Earth. If, that is, IF the person who produced it didn’t just rotate the video to match convention. Why would anyone produce such a video? Literally no one cares what Flerfs want, they are irrelevant. They reject gravity. They reject the globe. And then they miss the most basic consequence of both: “down” is toward the center of mass. Every person on Earth stands on their own local vertical. An Australian isn’t hanging upside down - they’re standing just as upright as you are. This is physics taught to ten-year-olds. Incredible it even needs to be addressed. So they keep demanding evidence that, even if handed to them from space, they would immediately misinterpret and still deny. And that’s why these demands don’t get taken seriously. Flat Earth is dead, it’s a zombie conspiracy.

One of the singular most frustrating things that pisses me off about trying to talk to conspiracy theorists is that nothing ever advances. Not one iota. And this applies to every conspiracy without exception: aliens and UFOs, 9/11 claims, anti-vaccination and virus denial, flat Earth, chemtrails, moon-landing denial, you name it. Every single one of these has been debunked to death, yet every person you encounter runs the exact same script. This isn’t skepticism - it’s cognitive rigidity, motivated reasoning, and confirmation bias locked into a closed loop. They are not engaging in learning or critical thinking. Conspiracy addicts are displaying conspiratorial ideation, belief perseverance, and epistemic learned helplessness - endlessly repeating claims while being psychologically incapable of updating them. At some point this stops being ignorance and starts looking like a pathological resistance to reality itself. A rejection of truth and reality 🔁 an addiction to the idea the conspiracies … everywhere.

They say cancer is “already cured for the rich.” That’s a lie. Steve Jobs, one of the richest men alive, had early-diagnosed, more treatable pancreatic cancer. If a secret “elite cure” existed, he’d have had it. Instead, he delayed proper treatment, chasing diets and acupuncture. By the time he returned to actual medicine, precious time was lost and he died needlessly. He’s proof: no secret cure, only science. And when people ask why I rail so hard against anti-science lies, it’s because these conspiracies don’t just mislead - they kill. Bad info costs lives, and denying science holds humanity back. I push back because we all deserve the truth - and a chance to live.