@Brian K:
Obligatory Onion: http://www.theonion.com/articles/evangelical-scientists-refute-gravity-with-new-int,1778/

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/who-runs-the-world/

It's interactive - mouse over!

You feel that way Custador, because, Big Pharma and Big Fluoride have already sapped your vital essences! LOL

Still...Flat Earth and Heliocentrism denial....that is just amazing. I can almost understand the 911 Truthers, but Heliocentrism?

I have to admit, the crazies that have me particularly riled at the moment tend to all tout the same four conspiracy theories:

1) Vaccination is a con by Big Pharma,
2) Fluoride in water is Killing You, and
3) Contrails? You mean CHEMTRAILS,
4) 9/11 was an Inside Job.

Seriously, these people are idiots, barely capable of grasping the pseudo-science they spout. Number 4) in particular grinds my gears, because I think there are unanswered questions about 9/11 that need to be addressed, but that doesn't mean "Bush Did It", and while the loonies fling their shit like chimpanzees, it obscures the relevant questions.

Really, I think it's a combination of a particular cognitive deficit (being unable to process certain information certain ways), and a form of gnosticism (the need to feel one is party to secret knowledge that lesser mortals do not have).

Why is it all of a sudden that all the crazies are coming out of the woodwork the last few years? The climate change deniers are starting to look like the sane ones. I mean, the whole premise behind Tea-o-nomics is that everything we've learned about economics since 1929 is completely wrong. "Legitimate rape..." I ran into one person on a political forum who wants to replace the income tax with a per capita tax. No joke. I'm expecting to hear someone seriously suggest bringing back slavery any day now...

It's like someone set off a bug bomb in the dark underbelly of American culture and all sorts of nasties are scurrying out into the light...

Meanwhile, here in Georgia, a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1997-2008), Benjamin Bridges, was criticized for circulating a memo condemning evolution and heliocentrism in the Georgia legislature. The memo's author was Marshall Hall- the president of the Fair Education Foundation. (fixedearth.com)

Marshall Hall's wife, Bonnie Hall, who also works on the website, was Bridges' longtime campaign manager.

According to Bonnie, on the site, Marshall would have been dead by now had it not been for prayers.

WTF!

Did you know there is no force of gravity? It is JESUS holding us down.

I don't believe in tape or glue.

Welcome to Planet Earth, Brian. Here, there is no concept so patently ludicrous that it has no adherents.

There are actually people out there who deny heliocentrism, who believe in the Fixed Earth metaphor/myth. I had no idea.

http://www.fixedearth.com/

I always thought the Flat Earth Society was a joke. Wikipedia has no wiff of humor in its description thereof.

Wierd. Just wierd.