“For what I’ve known for many years and what I’ve been taught is that the Earth is round,' he added, 'but if you really think about it from a landscape of the way we travel, the way we move and the fact that - can you really think of us rotating around the sun, and all planets align, rotating in specific dates, being perpendicular with what’s going on with these ‘planets’ and stuff like this?” “The Earth is flat,” Irving said on Road Trippin' in February. Gurol added that his students feel he, a trained educator, is part of a 'round-Earther' conspiracy aimed at discrediting the believes of outliers like Irving. 'How have I failed these kids so badly they think the Earth is flat just because a basketball player says it?' Gurol asked rhetorically in the NPR piece. One example teacher Nick Gurol shared was his students' belief in Irving's theory, despite Gurol's repeated attempts at proving the Cleveland Cavalier wrong.

Well, Irving's geographical conspiracy theory has apparently influenced at least a few young students in the United States.Īvi Wolfman-Arent of NPR wrote a story about middle-school science teachers having to contend with students absorbing fake news as fact. Remember a few months ago when the 25-year-old star NBA point guard declared the Earth to be flat while on the basketball podcast Road Trippin'? It appears Kyrie Irving's flat Earth theory is rounding into form inside some classrooms stateside. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.

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