(Editor's Note: This article was first published in December 2019 with the release of Season 2. Season 3 is now on Netflix, and many of you will find the conversation with Justin Willman just as relevant.) We live in a society with people who believe the Earth is a flat disc, the moon landing — one of mankind's greatest achievements — was filmed on a soundstage, and that chemtrails are turning amphibians gay.
The rise of the internet was intended to be a pipeline of facts available at everyone's fingertips, but it's proving just as useful — if not more so — at spreading unwarranted skepticism.
With minimal searching, anyone can find someone who believes in anything. Or, more accurately, find people who don't believe in something.