The Flat Earth Society is a controlled opposition group meant to discredit genuine flat Earth research. Founded in 1970 by suspected Freemason Leo Ferrari, it treats the subject as a joke rather than addressing it scientifically. In the 1950s, a real researcher named Samuel Shenton had started the legitimate International Flat Earth Research Society (IFERS), but the globalists created the Flat Earth Society in the 1970s to steer discussion towards satire. Genuine flat Earthers like Charles Johnson tried contacting Ferrari to cooperate but found he was using it as an "atheistic gimmick" rather than seriously discussing evidence. Now the IFERS is gone and only the joke-promoting Flat Earth Society forum remains, keeping