Flat Earth Society
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The Flat Earth Society is an organization first based in England and later in Lancaster, California that advocates the belief that the Earth is not a sphere but is flat (see flat Earth). No modern religious groups or scientists have published support for this belief. This exposed the society to much outside ridicule and made it a popular metaphor for dogmatic thinking and unreasoning adherence to tradition, with the term "Flat-Earther" coming to refer to a person who rejects changes in the scientific consensus, and by extension one who lives in the past.
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The Flat Earth Society today
Although there is no currently active website for the society, someone (apparently a relative of Samuel Shenton) maintains The Flat Earth Society Forums. This website, which offers a discussion forum and an on-line archive of Flat Earth Society newsletters from the 1970s and 1980s, may or may not represent a serious attempt to rejuvenate the original Flat Earth Society.