It's had a spotty history, having never really been much more than a newsletter mailing list, and it's only been around since 1956. The Flat Earth Society does indeed exist, but its current incarnation is quite a bit different today than what was originally founded.

Perhaps of the greatest interest is the question of why certain beliefs were adopted in cases where the observations conflicted with the dogma. We're going to try and sort all this out, to see who actually believes what today, and who actually believed what going back through history. While this is described as an ancient, pre-scientific belief, it's increasingly common today to point out that very few ancient societies who had any meaningful science actually believed the Earth was flat.

The Flat Earth Society is well known, and widely assumed to be a group of people who lobby the idea that the Earth is not actually a globe. Today we're going to point the skeptical eye at a series of beliefs that are said to be about the shape of the Earth.

The flat earth theory