April 1, 2025 • 18 mins
🔎 Episode Overview
In this shocking episode of Math! Science! History!, I uncover groundbreaking new research that challenges everything we thought we knew about the shape of our world. Are NASA and world governments hiding the truth? Could the moon landing have been staged? And what about gravity—is it even real? Buckle up as the podcast takes off into the most explosive scientific revelation of our time… or is it?
Prepare to have your mind blown, your worldview questioned, and, by the end of the episode, your skepticism sharpened, as we celebrate April Fools' Day with a lesson in critical thinking and the power of scientific inquiry.
🧠What You’ll Learn:
The "new evidence" that “proves” the Earth is flat. Learn about the ultra-secret Institute of Geospatial Realignments and its shocking findings on Earth's curvature (or lack thereof).
How conspiracy theories manipulate data. Discover how selective evidence, out-of-context images, and logical fallacies can be used to build a compelling but completely false argument.
The importance of real scientific research. Understand why peer review, repeatability, and critical thinking are essential to separating fact from fiction.
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🏛 Links & Resources:
https://theonion.com/flat-earthers-explain-why-the-earth-is-flat-1850548548/
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(00:01):
(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Welcome to Math Science History, a podcast dedicated
to bringing the topics of math and science
to you through the lens of history.
Today's episode is based on recent breaking news
in the science community.
I'm Gabrielle Burchak.
I'm an author and a speaker with a
background in math science and journalism, and by
the time you're done listening to this, I
guarantee you're probably going to be shocked at
(00:24):
this news.
It doesn't look good for the science community.
In the year 415, the infamous philosopher and
mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, Egypt was savagely murdered
by church monks.
This murder shocked the Roman community and its
(00:47):
government leaders.
Hypatia was known far and wide as a
respected philosopher, mathematician, government advisor, and a professor.
Hypatia, the sum of her life, is a
book that I wrote that looks not just
at the circumstances surrounding her death, but also
at the sum of her entire life.
I weave in the details of her education,
(01:08):
disciples, Neoplatonic philosophies, female contemporaries, and the many
mathematics that she wrote and taught about.
There is truly more to Hypatia's life than
her death.
Hypatia, the sum of her life, written by
me, Gabrielle Burchak, is now on sale on
Amazon.
Buy your copy today.
(01:33):
So today, unfortunately, is a very somber podcast
because it's a bad day for science.
I've been doing some deep research and I
found some new platforms because for some reason,
I couldn't obtain my science data from my
traditional platforms like Archive and NASA's science data
portal.
(01:53):
But I did find some other platforms that
provide really good information, up-to-date, and
steeped in credible research.
And like I noted, I've been doing some
extensive research on these platforms for a while
now.
And so I will provide those resources on
my website at mathsciencehistory.com.
And a quick plug, while you're at mathsciencehistory
(02:13):
.com, please click on that coffee button and
buy us a cup of coffee or two
or three or four, because every cup of
coffee that you buy helps to pay for
the production of this podcast.
Thank you so much for your support.
I know you're not going to believe me,
and I cannot believe I am saying this
at Math Science History, because I have read
all the books and learned since I was
(02:35):
a kid that our planet is a spinning
sphere.
When I first read about the analysis by
Eratosthenes, I was sold.
Of course, I think I was nine years
old.
And we've been taught about gravity, orbits, and
even that we've landed on the moon.
But what if I told you that I
now have valid data, highly researched, extensive proof
(02:56):
that the earth is, in fact, flat?
Before you stop listening to the podcast, please
hear me out.
And please listen to the scientists that I
spoke to, whom, by the way, I recorded
with their permission.
When I first tried to access data on
NASA's science data portal, I couldn't access a
particular page about women in leadership, obviously.
(03:17):
So I started looking around for other registries
and data portals.
I came across the Advanced Theoretical Repository of
Empirical Data, ATRED, which at first seemed suspicious.
But the more I researched this platform, the
more I realized that this is valid data.
And though I was unsure with the research
(03:37):
because it was all by white men, I
clicked through and came across the Global Registry
Curvature Discrepancy and Gravimetric Anomalies Registry, CDGAR.
Apparently, this platform uncovers what NASA and other
agencies have allegedly been hiding for centuries.
Using cutting edge horizon stabilization analytics, researchers have
(03:59):
determined that the Earth's curvature, long thought to
be about 20 centimeters per mile squared, simply
does not exist.
Italian researcher Dr. Cecilia Rettingolare explains.
We ran multiple tests.
We launched high-altitude weather balloons equipped with
(04:21):
state-of-the-art laser gyroscopes, and every
single time the laser remained perfectly level.
If the Earth were truly a sphere, as
we've been told, shouldn't the laser curve downward?
And yet it doesn't.
Thus, according to a peer-reviewed study published
in CDGAR, researchers found that gravitational curvature equations
(04:42):
have been miscalculated for centuries.
And I will put that resource in my
website at mathsciencehistory.com.
So once I saw this, I asked myself,
as most of us in the science community
would ask, what about all the pictures from
space?
So I dug a little deeper and I
actually found proof that NASA, the amazing organization
that I once worked for and advocated for,
(05:05):
has been fabricating images for decades.
An exclusive whistleblower from the Federation of Orbital
and Optical Layer Studies has revealed that all
space images are generated using state-of-the
-art AI.
Researchers at the Observational Space Phenomena Database have
analyzed NASA footage and found suspicious fisheye lens
(05:27):
distortions.
And at first, I didn't believe it because
I've been reading about around Earth since I
was a kid.
And I referred back to the writings of
Eratosthenes, as I mentioned before.
However, I came across groundbreaking new research by
Dr. Lubos Capek, a historian specializing in ancient
mathematical epistemology.
He uncovered lost letters from Eratosthenes himself.
(05:51):
In these long-suppressed manuscripts, Eratosthenes allegedly admitted
that his famous shadow experiment was deeply flawed
due to errors in measurement and assumptions about
light refraction.
Dr. Capek's study, published in the Journal of
Preclassical Epistemology, JPCE, reveals that Eratosthenes later corrected
(06:11):
his calculations and wrote, quote, the Earth appears
not to curve but to stretch infinitely, like
the great waters of the Nile.
In other words, Eratosthenes allegedly admitted his famous
Earth curvature experiment was due to faulty measurements.
Of course, this new revelation brings into question
all of our so-called scientific truths.
(06:34):
The 1969 moon landing?
A well-orchestrated distraction.
The astronauts?
Just actors.
The proof?
Researchers from the Institute of Geospatial Realignments, IGR,
had analyzed the shadows in the moon landing
footage and found undeniable evidence that they were
cast by studio lights.
The research first began in 1994, and I
(06:56):
found some 1996 footage on Fox News that
validated this.
In fact, one investigator even found what appears
to be a coffee bean and tea leaf
cup in the background of a newly released
Apollo 11 image.
And I saw it.
I was kind of shocked, but I have
to admit, I give the director props for
picking better coffee than the other So what
(07:17):
about all those astronauts?
600 of them, in fact.
But surely at least one of the 600
astronauts would have spoken up, right?
Could all 600 of those astronauts be actors?
And that led me to think, why would
NASA hire me, a former actress?
And now it makes sense.
(07:37):
It was intentional.
That's why they had no problem with me
taking extra time during my lunch breaks to
go do dentine commercial auditions.
Brush your breath, brush your breath, brush your
breath with dentine.
Sorry, I had to do the plug.
Anyhow, I was shocked that they would hire
me, a former actress, to work at NASA.
So this makes sense.
(07:59):
Okay.
Now let's talk about those so-called live
feeds from the International Space Station.
Ever notice how the horizon is always curved?
That's not Earth.
It's a fish eye lens.
In fact, I did my own experiment.
I took a pancake and I held a
curved piece of glass in front of my
camera and boom, it looked just like the
(08:20):
globe, Earth.
Case closed.
It's all starting to make sense.
And finally, there's the undeniable proof of the
firmament.
New high-powered telescope images have allegedly captured
the faint reflection of a giant dome over
Antarctica.
That's right.
Every single satellite is actually stuck to the
(08:41):
dome, only moving when NASA updates their positioning
software.
Ever wonder why no commercial flights ever go
to the South Pole?
It's not because of safety.
It's because they'd bump into the sky.
I interviewed Dr. Gregory Ballonron with the Extragalactic
Research and Cosmological Ephemerides System, E-R-A
(09:03):
-C-E-S, erases, and I asked him
about this dome.
He confirmed his research and then stated, Our
high-altitude surveillance flights have repeatedly encountered an
impenetrable force above Antarctica.
The data is undeniable.
Planes do not merely adjust altitude.
They experience an abrupt halt, as if colliding
(09:24):
with an invisible barrier.
This confirms what ancient civilizations and suppressed scientific
records have suggested for centuries.
The sky is not infinite, but rather a
structured dome encasing our world.
Okay, I need you all to understand, I
was skeptical at first too, and no, I
haven't been taking the edibles, well maybe once
(09:46):
in a while, and occasionally I have a
shot of Sambuca, but I did a lot
of research, and then it was this final
piece that really pulled it together for me.
I studied fish, and this was undeniable actually.
Fish, yeah.
Think about it.
Have you ever seen a fish struggle to
swim uphill?
(10:06):
No?
Exactly.
That's because the ocean is flat.
If the earth were truly curved, fish would
have to constantly adjust their swimming angle to
compensate for the curvature of the earth.
And yet, every single fish in the ocean
swims perfectly level, never once questioning their environment.
(10:27):
And I have data on this that I
again will post on my website at mathsciencehistory
.com.
And this, my friends, is where everything comes
together.
The greatest minds in history, Galileo, Newton, Einstein,
somehow missed the most obvious proof of all.
The answer has been swimming right in front
of us this whole time.
(10:48):
Fish don't lie.
They're animals.
So I feel like I've been deceived, and
really that means...
The question is why?
Why would the scientific community, world governments, and
NASA all conspire to convince us the earth
is round?
The answer?
Profit.
The globe-making industry alone makes billions of
(11:11):
dollars annually selling inaccurate spherical representations of our
world.
In an exclusive phone interview with a senior
cartographer from geospatial imaging and terrestrial surveying, and
he requested anonymity due to serious professional repercussions,
and rightly so.
Thank you so much for agreeing to be
interviewed with Math Science History.
(11:32):
Please tell us more about the globes and
the maps that you are making.
I'm not allowed to be talking about this,
but the globes we make are all lies.
And no, I signed an NDA.
I had to speak up because I was
mad for the deception.
Mostly I was mad that they made me
share my tubercle with another employee.
(11:53):
And then they got mad at me because
I put a divider up between the two
of us and it kept falling over.
I like my privacy, okay?
Especially when I'm gassy.
So I thought I would just speak up
because I'm mad.
Now, I know this might be overwhelming.
A lifetime of believing in around earth gone
in a single podcast episode.
(12:15):
But before you stop listening to Math Science
History, first go to the website at Mathsciencehistory
.com and click on that coffee button and
buy us a cup of coffee to help
pay for the production of this podcast.
Then, before you challenge your science professors or
teachers and throw their globes in the trash,
look at your calendar.
What is the published date of this podcast?
(12:36):
And if you're listening in Italy or France,
a day when people stick paper fish onto
each other's backs as a joke, which means
my friends, this entire episode is one giant
(12:57):
fish on your back.
April fools.
And if you're in Canada or the UK
listening to this after 12 PM, I have
bad news for you.
You're officially the fool because April fool's pranks
are only supposed to last until noon.
So the joke's on you, eh?
Of course the earth is round.
Science is built on evidence, not conspiracies.
(13:18):
But this little experiment shows how easy it
is to cherry pick data and make anything
sound convincing if you ignore real science.
Just because you think it and just because
it's validated through some obscure new source, that
doesn't mean it's true.
Check your sources.
So what can we learn from today's podcast?
Well, one, science is built on repeatable evidence.
(13:42):
Eratosthenes proved over 2000 years ago that the
earth is round using simple shadows and math,
an experiment anyone can still replicate today.
Real science isn't based on secrecy.
It's based on observations we can test.
Two, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Science doesn't ask us to believe blindly.
(14:04):
It provides proof through experiments, peer review, and
real world testing.
If a claim rejects all existing evidence but
offers no real way to test it, it's
not science.
It's storytelling.
Three, critical thinking means questioning with logic, not
just skepticism.
It's good to ask questions, but real science
(14:24):
gives us tools to find answers through experiments,
math, and data.
If an idea requires a massive global conspiracy
to explain why it hasn't been proven, it
probably isn't science.
And speaking of conspiracy, back to my comment
about the 600 astronauts, do you think NASA
could really keep 600 astronauts quiet about the
(14:47):
secret?
I don't.
Number four, not all research is real.
Know how to spot fake science.
Misinformation spreads when people cherry pick data, ignore
peer review, or use complex sounding jargon to
make some nonsense seem credible.
They also use clickbait.
(15:08):
There's that too.
Real science welcomes scrutiny, so always check the
source.
Look for expert consensus and ask, can this
be tested?
Just because you think it is and just
because it's validated through some obscure new source,
that doesn't mean it's true.
But if you still want to see those
sources I mentioned on my website, visit us
(15:28):
at mathsciencehistory.com.
Five, we have firsthand proof from space.
Astronauts aboard the ISS see the curvature of
the earth every day, and anyone can watch
a weather balloon rise high enough to show
the planet's round horizon.
No special access or conspiracies, just real footage
from real people.
(15:49):
Thank you for tuning in to this Math
Science History April Fool's special.
Be sure to subscribe, share, and please leave
a review.
Those reviews matter, especially if I fooled you.
And until next time, stay curious, stay critical,
stay grounded, especially on this round earth.
And until next time, carpe diem.
(16:10):
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(16:31):
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(17:13):
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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Welcome to Math Science History, a podcast dedicated
to bringing the topics of math and science
to you through the lens of history.
Today's episode is based on recent breaking news
in the science community.
I'm Gabrielle Burchak.
I'm an author and a speaker with a
background in math science and journalism, and by
the time you're done listening to this, I
guarantee you're probably going to be shocked at
(00:24):
this news.
It doesn't look good for the science community.
In the year 415, the infamous philosopher and
mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, Egypt was savagely murdered
by church monks.
This murder shocked the Roman community and its
(00:47):
government leaders.
Hypatia was known far and wide as a
respected philosopher, mathematician, government advisor, and a professor.
Hypatia, the sum of her life, is a
book that I wrote that looks not just
at the circumstances surrounding her death, but also
at the sum of her entire life.
I weave in the details of her education,
(01:08):
disciples, Neoplatonic philosophies, female contemporaries, and the many
mathematics that she wrote and taught about.
There is truly more to Hypatia's life than
her death.
Hypatia, the sum of her life, written by
me, Gabrielle Burchak, is now on sale on
Amazon.
Buy your copy today.
(01:33):
So today, unfortunately, is a very somber podcast
because it's a bad day for science.
I've been doing some deep research and I
found some new platforms because for some reason,
I couldn't obtain my science data from my
traditional platforms like Archive and NASA's science data
portal.
(01:53):
But I did find some other platforms that
provide really good information, up-to-date, and
steeped in credible research.
And like I noted, I've been doing some
extensive research on these platforms for a while
now.
And so I will provide those resources on
my website at mathsciencehistory.com.
And a quick plug, while you're at mathsciencehistory
(02:13):
.com, please click on that coffee button and
buy us a cup of coffee or two
or three or four, because every cup of
coffee that you buy helps to pay for
the production of this podcast.
Thank you so much for your support.
I know you're not going to believe me,
and I cannot believe I am saying this
at Math Science History, because I have read
all the books and learned since I was
(02:35):
a kid that our planet is a spinning
sphere.
When I first read about the analysis by
Eratosthenes, I was sold.
Of course, I think I was nine years
old.
And we've been taught about gravity, orbits, and
even that we've landed on the moon.
But what if I told you that I
now have valid data, highly researched, extensive proof
(02:56):
that the earth is, in fact, flat?
Before you stop listening to the podcast, please
hear me out.
And please listen to the scientists that I
spoke to, whom, by the way, I recorded
with their permission.
When I first tried to access data on
NASA's science data portal, I couldn't access a
particular page about women in leadership, obviously.
(03:17):
So I started looking around for other registries
and data portals.
I came across the Advanced Theoretical Repository of
Empirical Data, ATRED, which at first seemed suspicious.
But the more I researched this platform, the
more I realized that this is valid data.
And though I was unsure with the research
(03:37):
because it was all by white men, I
clicked through and came across the Global Registry
Curvature Discrepancy and Gravimetric Anomalies Registry, CDGAR.
Apparently, this platform uncovers what NASA and other
agencies have allegedly been hiding for centuries.
Using cutting edge horizon stabilization analytics, researchers have
(03:59):
determined that the Earth's curvature, long thought to
be about 20 centimeters per mile squared, simply
does not exist.
Italian researcher Dr. Cecilia Rettingolare explains.
We ran multiple tests.
We launched high-altitude weather balloons equipped with
(04:21):
state-of-the-art laser gyroscopes, and every
single time the laser remained perfectly level.
If the Earth were truly a sphere, as
we've been told, shouldn't the laser curve downward?
And yet it doesn't.
Thus, according to a peer-reviewed study published
in CDGAR, researchers found that gravitational curvature equations
(04:42):
have been miscalculated for centuries.
And I will put that resource in my
website at mathsciencehistory.com.
So once I saw this, I asked myself,
as most of us in the science community
would ask, what about all the pictures from
space?
So I dug a little deeper and I
actually found proof that NASA, the amazing organization
that I once worked for and advocated for,
(05:05):
has been fabricating images for decades.
An exclusive whistleblower from the Federation of Orbital
and Optical Layer Studies has revealed that all
space images are generated using state-of-the
-art AI.
Researchers at the Observational Space Phenomena Database have
analyzed NASA footage and found suspicious fisheye lens
(05:27):
distortions.
And at first, I didn't believe it because
I've been reading about around Earth since I
was a kid.
And I referred back to the writings of
Eratosthenes, as I mentioned before.
However, I came across groundbreaking new research by
Dr. Lubos Capek, a historian specializing in ancient
mathematical epistemology.
He uncovered lost letters from Eratosthenes himself.
(05:51):
In these long-suppressed manuscripts, Eratosthenes allegedly admitted
that his famous shadow experiment was deeply flawed
due to errors in measurement and assumptions about
light refraction.
Dr. Capek's study, published in the Journal of
Preclassical Epistemology, JPCE, reveals that Eratosthenes later corrected
(06:11):
his calculations and wrote, quote, the Earth appears
not to curve but to stretch infinitely, like
the great waters of the Nile.
In other words, Eratosthenes allegedly admitted his famous
Earth curvature experiment was due to faulty measurements.
Of course, this new revelation brings into question
all of our so-called scientific truths.
(06:34):
The 1969 moon landing?
A well-orchestrated distraction.
The astronauts?
Just actors.
The proof?
Researchers from the Institute of Geospatial Realignments, IGR,
had analyzed the shadows in the moon landing
footage and found undeniable evidence that they were
cast by studio lights.
The research first began in 1994, and I
(06:56):
found some 1996 footage on Fox News that
validated this.
In fact, one investigator even found what appears
to be a coffee bean and tea leaf
cup in the background of a newly released
Apollo 11 image.
And I saw it.
I was kind of shocked, but I have
to admit, I give the director props for
picking better coffee than the other So what
(07:17):
about all those astronauts?
600 of them, in fact.
But surely at least one of the 600
astronauts would have spoken up, right?
Could all 600 of those astronauts be actors?
And that led me to think, why would
NASA hire me, a former actress?
And now it makes sense.
(07:37):
It was intentional.
That's why they had no problem with me
taking extra time during my lunch breaks to
go do dentine commercial auditions.
Brush your breath, brush your breath, brush your
breath with dentine.
Sorry, I had to do the plug.
Anyhow, I was shocked that they would hire
me, a former actress, to work at NASA.
So this makes sense.
(07:59):
Okay.
Now let's talk about those so-called live
feeds from the International Space Station.
Ever notice how the horizon is always curved?
That's not Earth.
It's a fish eye lens.
In fact, I did my own experiment.
I took a pancake and I held a
curved piece of glass in front of my
camera and boom, it looked just like the
(08:20):
globe, Earth.
Case closed.
It's all starting to make sense.
And finally, there's the undeniable proof of the
firmament.
New high-powered telescope images have allegedly captured
the faint reflection of a giant dome over
Antarctica.
That's right.
Every single satellite is actually stuck to the
(08:41):
dome, only moving when NASA updates their positioning
software.
Ever wonder why no commercial flights ever go
to the South Pole?
It's not because of safety.
It's because they'd bump into the sky.
I interviewed Dr. Gregory Ballonron with the Extragalactic
Research and Cosmological Ephemerides System, E-R-A
(09:03):
-C-E-S, erases, and I asked him
about this dome.
He confirmed his research and then stated, Our
high-altitude surveillance flights have repeatedly encountered an
impenetrable force above Antarctica.
The data is undeniable.
Planes do not merely adjust altitude.
They experience an abrupt halt, as if colliding
(09:24):
with an invisible barrier.
This confirms what ancient civilizations and suppressed scientific
records have suggested for centuries.
The sky is not infinite, but rather a
structured dome encasing our world.
Okay, I need you all to understand, I
was skeptical at first too, and no, I
haven't been taking the edibles, well maybe once
(09:46):
in a while, and occasionally I have a
shot of Sambuca, but I did a lot
of research, and then it was this final
piece that really pulled it together for me.
I studied fish, and this was undeniable actually.
Fish, yeah.
Think about it.
Have you ever seen a fish struggle to
swim uphill?
(10:06):
No?
Exactly.
That's because the ocean is flat.
If the earth were truly curved, fish would
have to constantly adjust their swimming angle to
compensate for the curvature of the earth.
And yet, every single fish in the ocean
swims perfectly level, never once questioning their environment.
(10:27):
And I have data on this that I
again will post on my website at mathsciencehistory
.com.
And this, my friends, is where everything comes
together.
The greatest minds in history, Galileo, Newton, Einstein,
somehow missed the most obvious proof of all.
The answer has been swimming right in front
of us this whole time.
(10:48):
Fish don't lie.
They're animals.
So I feel like I've been deceived, and
really that means...
The question is why?
Why would the scientific community, world governments, and
NASA all conspire to convince us the earth
is round?
The answer?
Profit.
The globe-making industry alone makes billions of
(11:11):
dollars annually selling inaccurate spherical representations of our
world.
In an exclusive phone interview with a senior
cartographer from geospatial imaging and terrestrial surveying, and
he requested anonymity due to serious professional repercussions,
and rightly so.
Thank you so much for agreeing to be
interviewed with Math Science History.
(11:32):
Please tell us more about the globes and
the maps that you are making.
I'm not allowed to be talking about this,
but the globes we make are all lies.
And no, I signed an NDA.
I had to speak up because I was
mad for the deception.
Mostly I was mad that they made me
share my tubercle with another employee.
(11:53):
And then they got mad at me because
I put a divider up between the two
of us and it kept falling over.
I like my privacy, okay?
Especially when I'm gassy.
So I thought I would just speak up
because I'm mad.
Now, I know this might be overwhelming.
A lifetime of believing in around earth gone
in a single podcast episode.
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But before you stop listening to Math Science
History, first go to the website at Mathsciencehistory
.com and click on that coffee button and
buy us a cup of coffee to help
pay for the production of this podcast.
Then, before you challenge your science professors or
teachers and throw their globes in the trash,
look at your calendar.
What is the published date of this podcast?
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And if you're listening in Italy or France,
a day when people stick paper fish onto
each other's backs as a joke, which means
my friends, this entire episode is one giant
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fish on your back.
April fools.
And if you're in Canada or the UK
listening to this after 12 PM, I have
bad news for you.
You're officially the fool because April fool's pranks
are only supposed to last until noon.
So the joke's on you, eh?
Of course the earth is round.
Science is built on evidence, not conspiracies.
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But this little experiment shows how easy it
is to cherry pick data and make anything
sound convincing if you ignore real science.
Just because you think it and just because
it's validated through some obscure new source, that
doesn't mean it's true.
Check your sources.
So what can we learn from today's podcast?
Well, one, science is built on repeatable evidence.
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Eratosthenes proved over 2000 years ago that the
earth is round using simple shadows and math,
an experiment anyone can still replicate today.
Real science isn't based on secrecy.
It's based on observations we can test.
Two, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Science doesn't ask us to believe blindly.
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It provides proof through experiments, peer review, and
real world testing.
If a claim rejects all existing evidence but
offers no real way to test it, it's
not science.
It's storytelling.
Three, critical thinking means questioning with logic, not
just skepticism.
It's good to ask questions, but real science
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gives us tools to find answers through experiments,
math, and data.
If an idea requires a massive global conspiracy
to explain why it hasn't been proven, it
probably isn't science.
And speaking of conspiracy, back to my comment
about the 600 astronauts, do you think NASA
could really keep 600 astronauts quiet about the
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secret?
I don't.
Number four, not all research is real.
Know how to spot fake science.
Misinformation spreads when people cherry pick data, ignore
peer review, or use complex sounding jargon to
make some nonsense seem credible.
They also use clickbait.
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There's that too.
Real science welcomes scrutiny, so always check the
source.
Look for expert consensus and ask, can this
be tested?
Just because you think it is and just
because it's validated through some obscure new source,
that doesn't mean it's true.
But if you still want to see those
sources I mentioned on my website, visit us
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at mathsciencehistory.com.
Five, we have firsthand proof from space.
Astronauts aboard the ISS see the curvature of
the earth every day, and anyone can watch
a weather balloon rise high enough to show
the planet's round horizon.
No special access or conspiracies, just real footage
from real people.
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Thank you for tuning in to this Math
Science History April Fool's special.
Be sure to subscribe, share, and please leave
a review.
Those reviews matter, especially if I fooled you.
And until next time, stay curious, stay critical,
stay grounded, especially on this round earth.
And until next time, carpe diem.
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There, you can find the transcripts and additional
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