Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> There was a time when all of humanity honestly believed the world was 
> flat, and anybody who claimed it wasn't was *obviously* a lunatic.

  AFAIK that's an urban legend. "Popular history" so to speak.

  *Some* people believed the Earth was flat at some point, but it was not
as common as most people nowadays believe. The concept has been inflated
a lot because it sounds like a funny piece of historical anecdote. Even
at medieval times many scholars not only knew the Earth was round, but
had a relatively good estimate about its radius.

> (There are people who think that accupuncture is nonesense. But now 
> scientists are finding that it causes measurable chemical changes in the 
> body that do, in fact, do something. As crazy as that sounds...)

  The placebo effect also causes measurable chemical changes in the body.

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                                                          - Warp

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