(1) Cruz, the red-meat Texas senator with an army of conservative followers , raised eyebrows on Tuesday when he told the Texas Tribune that people who believe global warming is real are “the equivalent of the flat-Earthers”.
(2) Even the EU’s more moderate flat-earthers argue that Greece’s debts should merely be rolled over while it “rebalances” to German levels of efficiency.
(3) Very few journalists (at least in the developed world) would give space to those claiming HIV doesn't cause Aids, to flat-Earthers, or those who believe that vaccines make us ill.
(4) Far more people have gone green now but they're quietly green, not evangelical, so you're still left having to deal with the flat-earthers, who are even more angry now that they've been proved wrong.
(5) "If you're attacked by Liam Fox on one side and Ed Balls from the other, you're in the right place," as if navigating by splitting the difference between flat and round earthers.
(6) Bill Shorten recommits to emissions trading, opposing 'Abbott’s society of flat-earthers' Read more Goodness, I thought, what policy could that crazy Labor leader be proposing?
(7) Professor Steve Jones's report on BBC science coverage raised the difficult question of impartiality: should the BBC stand impartially between sense and nonsense, between flat- and round-earthers?
(8) Achieving a consensus Some will no doubt argue that people acquire the labels they deserve - and that ‘flat-earther’, climate denying, conspiracy theorists have no interest in productive dialogue with screeching, doom-mongering ‘eco-loons’.
(9) From my time in the BBC newsroom, I know how anxiously the national broadcaster navigates by the sound of press decibels, striving for a mid course, even if that’s often between flat and round earthers.