My Flatmates And Me

Tom is a British writer currently working on a new documentary about public attitudes to science. This is the official page for all Facebook correspondence relating to his project.

What's up with people thinking the earth is flat lately?

This film investigates the lives of devoted Flat Earth believers in the UK. Tom Franklyn Gammage discovers them online, gets to know some active groups, and goes to meet them. Some of them are lovely, and some not so much. Most believe the world is a disc, yet others insist it's a rectangle.

But they can all agree on a few things: science is bad, all space exploration is fake, and it's the biggest conspiracy imaginable. According to Google trends, flat-earth activity is up fivefold in the last two years. And it's still rising.

In 2018, get ready for a look into the social incentives people have for hating science.