flat-earther

flat-earther

1. One who stubbornly believes or adheres to outdated , outmoded, and/or debunked theories, ideologies, ideas, or beliefs, despite overwhelming evidence against them. Taken from the now disproven belief that the Earth is flat, rather than spherical. There are too many flat-earthers in these parts, holding on to things their ancestors believed.
2. One who literally believes the Earth is flat. Flat-earthers have invented all kinds of ways to defend their conspiracy theory.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • courage of one's convictions, have the
  • have the courage of (one's) convictions
  • have the courage of convictions
  • have the courage of your convictions
  • have/lack the courage of your convictions
  • lack the courage of (one's) convictions
  • Colonel Blimp
  • prisoner
  • prisoner of conscience
  • value judgment
References in periodicals archive
Flat-earthers have been on the news and in the noise of social media a lot these days, following reports that the movement is gaining traction in the Philippines.
Flat-Earther are not short of those who do their math in support of their views.
He is reliably neither left nor right, Muslim or Christian, patriot, populist, Martian or Flat-Earther. He's an Obamist, and not even a predictable one.
Lutton's resume as a highly educated flat-earther would be of little consequence here except that he also occupies this seat at one of the most significant anti-immigrant think tanks.
Fallows in Looking at the Sun (1994), "then you are a flat-earther." Although economic theorists and economic historians "often share the same floor in faculty office buildings," notes a report cited by Fallows, "they remain a breed apart." Yet economic theory abstracted from history can go badly wrong.
If my criticism of globalization makes me a flat-earther, so be it.
David professes to be very cross indeed at the idea that anyone but a "flat-earther" could possibly object to the drastic alteration of the names of such races as the Fred Darling, the Greenham and the John Porter (by a complex system of brackets) so as to encourage us all to forget their traditional titles and think of them only by the names of their temporary sponsors.
But he was immediately denounced as a "flat-Earther" with no grasp of reality.
Mr McDonald has been a 'flat-earther' for four years after deciding to do some research into the topic.
acceptance or rejection of the scientific theories of global warming and evolution because of Krugman's column is an irresponsible, backward, "flat-earther" diatribe.
There was so much resistance to the idea that the term 'flat-earther' is still used today to describe someone who adheres to an outmoded belief.
In a separate row over the euro, a Labour backbencher yesterday dismissed former Labour foreign secretary Mr Owen as a "flat-earther" for opposing a single-currency.
After a number of vehicular glitches and legal hiccups, 'Mad' Mike Hughes, the 61-year-old flat-Earther who is on a spree to see our planet's actual curvature, finally managed to launch himself 1,875 feet up in the sky on Saturday.
But those warnings proved a long way wide of the mark, and all bar the most intractable flat-earther must surely acknowledge the system works, and works well.
Other Flat-Earther attendees echoed sentiments about loneliness.