An American flat YouTuber demonstrates… that the Earth is spherical during an expedition to Antarctica

Often linked to other conspiracy theories, the “Platists” as they are called, are growing all the more as they expose “proof” without any scientific rigor on the Internet and social networks.

Some 16% of Americans and 9% of French people would be convinced, against all scientific evidence, that the Earth is flat. This is particularly the case of Jeran Campanell, an American flat YouTuber, who for 10 years now has ardently defended this thesis on his YouTube channel “Jeranism”, followed by 164,000 people.

To prove to all his subscribers that the Earth was indeed flat, the YouTuber finally spent 35,000 euros to travel to Antarctica and prove that the midnight sun does not exist. A trip as part of an operation entitled “the final experiment”, a collaborative project between 24 YouTubers supporters of the flat Earth theory and 24 others who, like scientists, and even like Plato already, know that the Earth is very round.

However, confronted with the reality of the phenomenon, the YouTuber finally realized that the Earth was indeed spherical. Until now the YouTuber thought that the Earth was a disk bordered by the “mur” of Antarctica, itself bordered by a large wall of ice. Above the disk, according to him, a dome like a planetarium would contain the Sun and the Moon, which would be like giant light bulbs above our heads. In his personal cosmology, the American believed that the sun took 24 hours to complete one revolution, which according to him explained why it was sometimes day and sometimes night. But noting that the sun shines continuously at the South Pole, even at midnight, the latter recognized: “Sometimes we make mistakes in life“.

Conspirator, Jeran Campanell, however, assures that his approach was in good faith. We could despair that millions of people around the world, like him, with access to all scientific evidence and even satellite images of the Earth still believe that it is flat. But there is still good news in this story, since it can obviously happen that, when confronted with the facts, even conspiracy theorists can end up changing their minds.