Dr Shaq PhD Shares Flat Earth Thesis with the World

These are dark days in which we live, dudes.

Logic and reason are suddenly an afterthought, while ignorance has truly become bliss.

One of many examples can be found in the painfully misguided Flat Earth truther movement.

If you recall, Kyrie Irving started this madness by questioning documented scientific fact.

Well, the cause now has a new advocate in Shaquille O'Neal.

Listen to the Big Aristotle wax poetic:

Crazy talk.

Shaq has since walked back the silliness, stating he was obviously joking.

Well, that's just super duper.

This is all very amusing, but now is not the time to be perpetuating fallacies, even in jest.

Our recent presidential election provided definitive evidence that the lowest common denominator is out there in great numbers.

The dumbing down of America has reached critical mass, and nonsense like this certainly won't help reverse the trend.

Let's start with this:

There you go.