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[Ross knows] evolution is true in most everyday contexts. It is only in Phoebe's weird context that Ross does not know evolution is true....

Flat earthers are pulling the same trick. They're right that you don't know the earth is round. But they're only right in a context where testimonies of hundreds are disregarded, where widely accepted facts among the scientific community don't count, where photographic evidence is inadmissible, and so on....

...But in that context, nobody knows much at all and so this conclusion is simply unsurprising.
-- Nikk Effingham. How to reason with flat earthers (it may not help though), The Conversation (April 25, 2018).
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