![]() ![]() ![]() Redick’s podcast in January, he spoke glowingly about the flat-earth Instagram pages he follows and how persuasive he's found them to be. What prompted this conversion, Irving said, was watching videos on Instagram-a medium obviously known for its sophisticated discourse about the nature of the universe. Irving has been trumpeting the debunked flat earth theory since early 2017 when he supposedly became "woke" to the truth about the planet. He also just so happens to be perhaps the world’s most famous flat-earther. ![]() This whole saga keeps getting more and more incredible.Kyrie Irving is a lot of things: an NBA All-Star, an NBA champion, and one of the faces of Nike’s basketball brand. ![]() That's definitely hard for me because it feels like science isn't real to them." "They think that I'm part of this larger conspiracy of being a round-Earther. How have I failed these kids so badly they think the Earth is flat just because a basketball player says it?" He says he tried reasoning with the students and showed them a video. Gurol says his students got the idea of a flat planet from basketball star Kyrie Irving, who said as much on a podcast. She tells her students - like Nick Gurol, whose middle-schoolers believe the Earth is flat - that, as hard as they try, science teachers aren't likely to change a student's misconceptions just by correcting them. Which, of course, is a source of consternation for science teachers no matter what level. It turns out that Irving is quite influential to the teens, and has converted some of them into believing the Earth is in fact flat. One group isn't laughing, however, and that would be middle school science teachers. Everyone had a good laugh back in February when Kyrie Irving came out as a flat-Earth truther during an appearance on Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye's podcast, and his steadfast belief in our planet's lack of curvature has continued to be a source of jokes. ![]()
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