George Papas is not joking. He believes the earth is flat. He believes that the entire human species has been hornswoggled and conned by NASA, a handful of scientists, fake astronauts and the Freemason's Society into believing that the earth is round. George is an IT Director in an international relocation agency. Logic, systemic thinking, and hard analysis are presumably his stock in trade. And he is convinced that we are all being duped.

I went for the first meeting of Bangkok's Flat Earth Society on Dec 29 not because I believed in its basic premise but because, in this post-truth world of fake news and outright lies, a part of me says we must listen to all points of view, even the absurd ones, and decide which one is probably true through research, enquiry, evidence and good thinking.