As a geographer its extremilly sad to see how many people belive that the earth is flat and in other kind of pseudoscience.
Here in Brazil a survey have found that at least 11% of the population, something around 23million people, believe the earth is flat, even with some high profile governament members saying they believe in such things, and giving space to a huge anti-science movement that is starting to undermine all kinds of scientific knowloge, with being a anti-vax, anti-mask and climate change denier becoming a standart in the country, with even the presidente saying he will not take a COVID vaccine because is a communist plot, and religious fundamentalists trying to change the content that is thaught in Schools, making kids stop studying science and starting studying the bible.
There's even a story here about a priest who use ballons to float until he is high enough to prove the earth is flat, but he fell into the ocean and die