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ANCIENT GIANT TREES

While some of the more outré recent conspiratorial ideas are clearly taken as tongue-in-cheek by the majority of those who claim to espouse them (e.g. “Birds Aren’t Real”, FT409:12), the new wave of Flat Earthers () continue to be bafflingly earnest, despite the complete lack of evidence for their pet theory.

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