(Unless you want to also declare that the social environment is one in which people often say that the world is flat and that people declining to say the world is flat are at a disadvantage.)
Not sure how much of this is true, but I hear rumours about that being the case (if you replace “the world is flat” with something like “humans were intelligently designed”) in certain geographical locales. (I do hope that Conservapedia is eventually revealed to be just a parody, though.)
EDIT: To avoid appearing to be one-sided, I’ll point out that the equivalent of that at the other end of the political spectrum is something like “all races have the same average intelligence”.
Not sure how much of this is true, but I hear rumours about that being the case (if you replace “the world is flat” with something like “humans were intelligently designed”) in certain geographical locales. (I do hope that Conservapedia is eventually revealed to be just a parody, though.)
EDIT: To avoid appearing to be one-sided, I’ll point out that the equivalent of that at the other end of the political spectrum is something like “all races have the same average intelligence”.