


She also states that she would believe in the Boston Marathon bombing only if her own leg had been blown off there, dismissing the lived experience of the people standing on the streets of Boston that day and the three dead, hundreds injured, and 16 victims who lost their limbs. This also confounds viewers: What could possibly be the motivation of any group to sell centuries of civilization on an inaccurate view of the shape of the world and the nature of the cosmos? In one of the more disturbing moments of the film, one Flat Earther suggests “they” might be Jews or Muslims.

Flat Earthers accuse an amorphous “they” of spreading ideas about the Earth being round, though Flat Earthers can offer no reason anyone would do such a thing and cannot name who “they” is.
