The Earth is flat, Australia does not exist, we never landed on the Moon, chemtrails are a reality, vaccines are harmful, and so on.
These are just some of the fanciful theories that, thanks also to social media, have taken hold in a growing fringe of the population, although there is no scientific evidence to support them.
The Italian television program "The Hyenas" has sent a reporter to a convention of Italian flatearthers to investigate what makes them tick.
But what drives these people to give credit to such theories? We asked the author of the reportage, Gaston Zama.
Watch the "Le Iene" episode on flatearthers:
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