There’s a flat earther radio personality named Patricia Steer who has been accused by other flat earthers of being a CIA asset (and frankly if I were to cast a honeypot agent, she would fit the bill).
There are flat earth conventions, dating sites, and celebrities. I did discover that flat earth theory is a lot more popular than I assumed. Surprisingly, no-one in the film ever brings up the moon landing. As I predicted, the talking heads associate flat earthers with other beyond-the-mainstream-pale types such as “anti-vaxxers” and JFK assassination conspiracy theorists (this despite the fact that more than 60% of Americans believe that Oswald did not act alone). Instead, we get a lot of talking head analysis of the psychology of flat earthers. Nor does it really explore what flat earthers believe the motivations behind an “earth is round” conspiracy might be in most conspiracies, these are typically money, power, and/or cover-up of a crime.
One of the first things that the documentary illuminates is that flat earthers view the earth as a dome, or a kind of “snow globe.” Disappointingly, the documentary provides no further explanation of flat earth theory nor any scientific refutation of the theory. "The NASA con job is somehow connected to various bugaboos: dangerous vaccines, chem trails, GMO foods, and a “transgender push in the media,” as one young guy puts it," a film reviewer states in a piece I found online. Did flat earthers envision the earth as a rectangle floating in space? When an online acquaintance recommended the 2018 documentary Behind the Curve, I took the opportunity to learn more, although from the beginning I was wary of the film’s true purpose. Because I suspected that “flat earth” (and for that matter, UFOs, despite their recent popularity ) was a psyop used to discredit legitimate conspiracy theories, I never delved further into the details.
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