Flat Earth Analogy

The Flat Earth Analogy or Flat Earth Falacy is an informal falacy to formal falacy that seeks to compare certain concept, idea, hypothesis or theory into something that is falacious, often flat Earth. A common example of this is "X is just like flat Earth", "Believing in X is the same as believe in flat Earth", "X and flat Earth are the same because both concepts are bullshit" and "X and flat Earth do not exist so they are somewhat similar", this falacy/analogy is commonly used by atheists, scientificists and people who want to discredit some narrative or idea/concept.

"The Flat Earth Analogy is a form of Argumentum Ad Pseudoscientia, maybe the most common form of Argumentum ad Pseudoscientia, that can include other things such as "climate denial", "antivax" and so on."

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