The original Flat Earth Society (the Canadian one) was formed in 1970 by some of the world's greatest minds (notably Alden Nowlan) ... and these minds resided in the lowly Canadian province of New Brunswick (Canada).

"Administrative history: The Flat Earth Society of Canada was organized at Fredericton, N.B. on 8 November 1970 by Leo Ferrari, Raymond Fraser, and Alden Nowlan. According to them, a prevailing problem of the new technological age was the willingness of people to accept theories "on blind faith and to reject the evidence of their own senses." To promote critical thinking, the society chose to dispute one thing that "scientific Western civilization" considers indisputable -- namely, that the earth is round. The organization, therefore, set as its primary aims: "to combat the fallacious deification of the circle," "to restore man's confidence in the validity of his own perceptions", and "to spearhead man's escape from his metaphysical and geometrical prison." "The earth is flat; any fool can see that" was adopted as the society's principal motto."

... excerpt from http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/ferrari/s2.html

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