Think this is bad?  Do you know how many evangelical Christians believe the earth is 6,000 years old?  This article, trending on Google News right now, will be responsible for converting many people to flat earth ideology, because the author is not trained in debunking false claims without accidentally reinforcing them.  The internet is making the world stupid, because bad information spreads more rapidly than good information, and because people don't know how to evaluate claims and use data to make decisions.  Science is slowly being abandoned.  Without it, we can expect a new Dark Age of superstition and evil.