Jayson_Virissimo comments on Recommended reading: George Orwell on knowledge from authority

Jayson_Virissimo 5 Aug 2009 23:25 UTC
10 points
It is conventional wisdom that the conventional wisdom in the Middle Ages was that the world was flat. Your conclusion is right for the wrong reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth