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Flat Earth (also known as theFlat Earth myth, theFlat Earth theory,Globe Skepticism,Globe Denial,flat-Earthism, less commonlyplatygeism, andintelligent geography for parodists ofintelligent design) refers to thepseudoscientific belief that theEarth — which the vast, vast majority of the population imagine in their heads as this bigspherical thing (oroblate spheroidal thing, pedants) — is actually ageocentric flat disk.Yes, people actuallydo believe this, although this belief usually involves some form of religiousfundamentalism.

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