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Letter: First class post

Published 6 December 2017

From Elsa Beckett, London, UK

Do people ever try to actively justify a delusion? Lately, I learned that a relative is a “flat-Earther”. Has a group of them ever mounted an expedition to bring back proof of the world's edge?

Issue no. 3155 published 9 December 2017

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