Renowned FE debunker SciManDan calls out renowned FE’er Nathan Oakley for claiming that the NTSB “corrects” aircraft pitch indicators to match RE when investigating deadly aircraft crashes.
You still haven't explained a fallacy.
If people are dying because of faulty measurements, it is your moral duty to employ Cromwell's Law and stop making excuses.
If it's more important for you to "be right" than
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken
then those deaths are 100% on your hands.
Just as if a man sails into an "iceberg" in the southern hemisphere, when actually, what happened is that the GPS maps they were looking at were based on a model instead of comparing to sonar or radar of nearby landforms. Oh goody, and now they're having AI (known for it's G.I.G.O. mistakes) look for icebergs. Not only is the programming of AI built with the automatic assumption (again, no Cromwell's Law) that Earth is a sphere, but these are the same systems that wreck cars.
According to the most recent NHTSA data, in 2024, there were between 22 and 81 self-driving car crashes each month.
From July 2021 to June 13, 2025, the number of crashes involving ADS (Automated Driving Systems)-equipped vehicles has fluctuated but generally increased.
They go on to say the technology is not yet perfect. Right, when it is perfect, there will be a 100% fatality rate.
As for me, I think I would feel far more safe in a ship with no map at all, that the captain can see directly outside and hear "Land ho!" (She be an honest woman, I say!) than a ship surrounded by GPS forecasts from a RE model but where you can't visually see ahead of you (in the absence of secondary scans). I'd also lay anchor every night in the southern hemisphere, and every time there is mist.
I don't see any fallacy here. What i do see is loads and loads of unclaimed responsibility.
"I could be mistaken. It's time to make planes with the assumption that a model
may or
may not be correct, and add additional safeguards, instead of doubling down on a philosophy that should have died with the woke Greeks."
This is what you need to say.
When you rigidly defend a theory at the expense of human safety, the deaths are on your hands. He is correct. Just as if FE were rigidly taught, and people (pffft) started falling off the edge of the Earth, we'd want to correct so that would stop happening.
The joke is because that was what Round Earthers used to say about why the Earth isn't flat.