In this podcast, I argue that pseudoscientific theories are based on emotions rather than evidence. I draw evidence from several resources that dissect several emotional factors which have led those who identify as Flat Earther’s to believe that the shape of the earth is flat like a disk rather than its scientifically proven spherical shape. I first look at their emotional attachments to religion, then I expand on their fear of being duped by big corporations and finally, how the sense of community that their fellow round earth deniers give them on the internet. We take a look at how the internet serves as an echo chamber that only shows them what they want to see, preventing them from exploring other possibilities or beliefs. References: Amrhein, V., Korner-Nievergelt, F., & Roth, T. (2017). The earth is flat ( p  > 0.05): significanc thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research. PeerJ (San Francisco, CA), 5, e3544–e3544. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3544 Brazil, R. (2020). Fighting flat-Earth theory. Physics World, 33(7), 35–39. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/33/7/34 Kuzii, O., & Rovenchak, A. (2019). What the gravitation of a flat Earth would look like and why thus the Earth is not actually flat. European Journal of Physics, 40(3), 35008–. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/ab0bba Jubilee. (2020). Flat Earthers vs Scientists: Can We Trust Science? Middle Ground. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7yvvq-9ytE Landrum, A., Olshansky, A., & Richards, O. (2019). Differential susceptibility to misleading flat earth arguments on youtube. Media Psychology, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1669461. Picheta, R. (2019, November 18). The flat-Earth conspiracy is spreading around the globe. Does it hide a darker core? Retrieved from https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/16/us/flat-earth-conference-conspiracy-theories-scli-intl/index.HTML Walchover, N. (2017). Are Flat-Earthers Being Serious? Retrieved from https://www.livescience.com/24310-flat-earth-belief.html. Weber, M. J. (2018). How the Internet Made Us Believe in a Flat Earth. Retrieved from https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/how-the-internet-made-us-believe-in-a-flat-earth-2e42c3206223