Hammerer:

 

Batman:

 

Rikkitic:

 

When 99 people say the planet is warming, and one person says it is cooling, I'm inclined to agree with the 99.

 

 

In that case you could have still been sure that the earth was flat!

 

 

Your point loses its impact because you are using a "modern" myth to make your point.

 

It is a "modern" misconception based on a late-nineteenth century ideological polemic which has become an incredibly deep-rooted fallacy in arguments supporting science over other things. Even today most people probably believe that the vast majority of people used to believe that the world is flat.

 

I am dumbfounded that this excrement keeps being recycled. The fact is that scientist-philosophers were proving the earth to be spherical before Christmas Day was an idea.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth

 

Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell says the flat-Earth error flourished most between 1870 and 1920, and had to do with the ideological setting created by struggles over biological evolution. Russell claims "with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat", and ascribes popularization of the flat-Earth myth to histories by John William Draper, Andrew Dickson White, and Washington Irving.

 

If you read the writings used to create this myth then you very quickly lose any taste for using it ever again.

 

 

 

Well the point is that, normally 99% of people would believe in something widely accepted until that 1% rebel makes an experiment to show otherwise, and then slowly the 99% shifts. What did 99% of people believe before the theory of evolution was published? Is that a myth too?