
If you thought that flat Earthism was gone, think again. Countries, according to him, spread across this flat world as they appear to do on a map, with Antarctica as a ring of mountains strung around the edge. For when Shenton rides his motorbike, he says it is not gravity that pins him to the road, but the rapid upward motion of a disc-shaped planet. He is mainstream on most issues, but not all. He thinks the evidence for man-made global warming is strong, and he dismisses suggestions that his own government was involved with the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The 33-year-old American, originally from Virginia but now living and working in London, is happy with the work of Charles Darwin.


In fact, Shenton turns out to have resolutely mainstream views on most issues.
