do you believe in the theory of flat earth?

'I think it's as plausible as The Truman Show.'ĭo you have a story tip? Email: can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and download the Yahoo News app from the App Store or Google Play. the claims seem to be out of a children's nursery rhyme,' he said.

'The fact that this could be held up by rocks in space, and be moving upwards at a rate of 32 feet per second, and there's no gravity – the fact there's an ice wall, which is Antarctica, around the disk 150 feet tall and guarded by NASA. He said however the Flat Earth theory seemed to contain no elements of truth at all. 'Black demon': Truth behind Megalodon shark conspiracy The $2b conspiracy lurking beneath world famous airport Whereas a with a lot of conspiracy theories there are shards of proof that have been woven together.' 'This conspiracy theory, particularly to me, makes no sense at all,' he said. 'I think those two things very much impinge on human consciousness.'ĭr Hames said while he can see why some people may believe other conspiracies, he cannot understand the Flat Earth theory.

'The other thing is of course we're more open to this notion that things can be different because of the speed of science fiction movies that come at us all the time and other conspiracy theories that are floating around the ether,' he said. The futurist said a lack of trust in the government made people more suspicious, leading to more questions about what facts are truth. 'Why would so many organisations be conspired to lie about such a thing? There's very little rationale to underpin why anyone would do that.'ĭr Hames added science was the best tool we had to knowing how the world worked and the 'overwhelming evidence' showed Earth was a sphere. 'It's bonkers,' he told Yahoo News Australia as part of its new Conspiracies Unpacked series. However futuristic Dr Richard Hames has debunked the conspiracy and said the theory is like something 'out of a children's nursery rhyme'. Futurist Dr Richard Hames says the Flat Earth theory is not plausible.

Do you believe in the theory of flat earth?