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7 September 2011

How the Earth wasn’t

RESIDENTS of Winnipeg in Canada (and doubtless elsewhere) have recently been bombarded with a television advert for Infiniti, apparently a brand of luxury personal transport, that opens with the suggestion that: “If no one ever challenged the status quo, the Earth would still be flat.”

James Daun, clearly a believer in an objective reality that exists independently of our beliefs, says he “would hesitate to deal with a company that believed that the Earth ever was flat”.

“We know the wind in Edinburgh can be chilly – but the 24 August Metcheck.com forecast for the Scottish…

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