| EricHiggin said: Want to know what else used to be "well known"? That the Earth was flat... good to know that was the factual truth and still is... heaven forbid anyone ever came along and questioned that fact and tried to prove otherwise... (btw, a bunch of scientists, astronomers, mathematicians, were all executed during this period, only to later be proven correct about their crazy "round Earth" assumptions and proofs). |
A scientific "fact" is fundamentally different than something the news would typically report on. These facts generally revolve around "this event happened" or "this person said something", not "here we present a hypothesis for explaining earth's shape". Scientific facts are based on explaining events or phenomena while "news" facts are based on mere existence of events or phenomena.
We don't need a thorough scientific analysis of whether or not some individual is actually being investigated by the FBI. That doesn't even really make sense.
PS: Flat earth theory largely went away around the third century BC. It is a myth that it was common in medieval times and before Colombus.
