Flat Earth Society - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • English musician Thomas Dolby released an album called The Flat Earth, has used the name Flat Earth Society for his website forums, and has linked to information relating to the flat earth myth.
  • In the film Hopscotch, Miles Kendig (Walter Matthau) jokes that he is bequeathing all his money to the Flat Earth Society.
  • In the 1980s, talk show host Wally George often sparred with and ridiculed members of the Flat Earth Society on his show Hot Seat. Australian talk show host Don Lane also had Flat Earth Society advocates on his show.
  • A tourism commercial for Newfoundland and Labrador states that the Flat Earth Society claimed that Newfoundland and Labrador was one of the four corners of the world.
  • California-based punk rock band Bad Religion include a song entitled "Flat Earth Society", written by Brett Gurewitz, on their album Against the Grain (1990). A prominent feature of the song is the refrain "lie, lie, lie," indicating a strong denunciation of the society and its theories. The band has produced similar songs criticizing other movements it views as pseudoscientific.
  • English band Carter USM make reference to the Flat Earth Society in the song "Senile Delinquent" on their album Worry Bomb (1995)
  • Klutz Press mention the Flat Earth Society in the book Mother Nature Goes Nuts! in a section about the argument on global warming, saying how it is practically impossible to get everyone on earth to agree on one thing.
  • In Stephen King's novella The Mist, the main character uses the name Flat Earth Society to describe a group that refuse to accept the presence of monsters in the mist outside.
  • Richard A. Lupoff's novel Circumpolar! describes a flat planet much like the Earth as described by the Flat Earth Society, except it has a hole at the centre instead of a North Pole, and the underside contains fictional lands such as Atlantis and Lemuria.
  • In Lawrence Block's novel The Canceled Czech (1966), secret agent Evan Tanner writes an article for the quarterly bulletin of the Flat Earth Society of England.

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