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Sun Aug 10, 2014, 09:50 AM Aug 2014

This guy reminds me of the anti-GMO hysterics...

Truly believing in something that no matter the evidence, it just "feels right" to them to attack GMO food.

#1139: Daniel Shenton

Yes, there are still people believing that the earth is flat, and they do have an organization, founded by one Samuel Shenton in the 1950s. Daniel Shenton is the current president (and he is, curiously, apparently not even related to Samuel). According to Shenton, it is not gravity that pins us to the ground but the rapid upward motion of a disc-shaped planet (that Newtonian thing about constant motion seems to have escaped him), and you can indeed fall over the edges. He also uses a GPS when riding his motorcycle, apparently.

http://americanloons.blogspot.ca/2014/08/1139-daniel-shenton.html

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This guy reminds me of the anti-GMO hysterics... (Original Post) Archae Aug 2014 OP
Indeed. HuckleB Aug 2014 #1
Skeptical Irony HuckleB Aug 2014 #2
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