Popular culture HiLo48 I don t want to get into edit war but you need to remember that the Flat Earth Society is a group that has become a living metaphor for backward thinking and a refusal to face scientific facts David Adam Guardian You say in your comment that it is a high profile mention of the society It s nothing of the sort It s just the use of a metaphor As it happens I think Obama is quite right to refer to climate change deniers as flat earthers and to argue that we can t delete it for political reasons is absurd WP IPC has plenty of warnings about these sections getting out of control and if we documented every notable figure who used the phrase then it would It might be worth saving if it was used as an example of a metaphor possibly using the quotation above as the point hasn t been made in the article How Daniel Shenton can use a GPS and still carry on with his flat earth opinions beats me