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Eric Dubay

Prolific flat-Earth author and YouTuber best known for "200 Proofs Earth is Not a Spinning Ball," combining list-style arguments with anti-NASA, anti-Masonic, and spiritual conspiracy framing.

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Also known as: 200 Proofs Earth is Not a Spinning Ball

Eric Dubay is among the most influential modern flat-Earth propagandists, distributing his free book "200 Proofs Earth is Not a Spinning Ball" and hundreds of videos that recycle horizon, water-level, and space-agency claims in aggressive list format. The claims below are paraphrased from his recurring talking points, for context and mapping, not quoted as endorsement or settled fact.

This index maps 50 recurring arguments to pages where you can test the globe prediction directly.

How to read this index

Each card is a paraphrase of how the claim is usually framed: not a verbatim quote.

  • Typical claim, how the argument sounds in debates and streams.
  • Globe-side response, what the spherical model predicts or where the flat framing breaks.
  • Links, open debunks, tools, or experiments on this site to run the check yourself. Beta pages appear only with ?beta=1 in the URL.

200 Proofs & rhetoric

The signature proof list, single-killer-argument framing, and indoctrination narratives.

200 Proofs irrefutable

Typical claim

His book lists two hundred independent proofs that Earth cannot be a spinning ball, and critics never answer them all.

Globe-side response

Most entries repeat perspective errors, map projections, or agency distrust and are inconsistent with measurements globe models predict quantitatively.

Proofs #1–50 cumulative

Typical claim

The opening water, horizon, and flight proofs stack into a case that collapses the globe before any advanced physics is needed.

Globe-side response

Taken individually, early proofs ignore refraction, great-circle navigation, and hidden-height geometry that sphere models answer.

One proof is enough

Typical claim

A single level-water demonstration is sufficient because a spinning ball cannot hold flat oceans.

Globe-side response

Local flat appearance over short baselines is predicted by equipotential surfaces on a massive sphere, not proof of an infinite plane.

Globe is religion

Typical claim

Ball-Earth belief is dogma taught like scripture since Copernicus, not an empirical model anyone can test.

Globe-side response

Shadow angles, eclipse paths, and GNSS sky geometry make falsifiable predictions that flat lists do not match at the same precision.

Science is religion

Typical claim

Institutional science functions as a faith system that punishes anyone who questions the spinning globe.

Globe-side response

Open data, amateur replication, and cross-checks from unrelated fields are inconsistent with a closed priesthood guarding one story.

Spiritual awakening

Typical claim

Accepting flat Earth is liberation from the matrix and a spiritual step beyond programmed globe belief.

Globe-side response

Subjective awakening language is inconsistent with measurement protocols that do not require shared ideology to reproduce.

Globe believers brainwashed

Typical claim

Globe defenders were indoctrinated in school and cannot see obvious proofs because their perception is programmed.

Globe-side response

Independent flight schedules, telescope sightings, and stick-shadow tests let skeptics verify globe predictions without trusting classrooms.

Freemasons control science

Typical claim

Masonic networks from Newton through NASA secretly maintain the globe deception for occult control.

Globe-side response

Ad hominem lineage stories are inconsistent with publicly verifiable ephemerides, radio contacts, and geodetic surveys.

Water, horizon & maps

Level water, Bedford-style tests, curvature disputes, and map-projection arguments from the proof list.

Flat disc, North Pole center

Typical claim

Earth is a flat circle with the North Pole at the hub, matching azimuthal equidistant charts.

Globe-side response

That projection stretches southern distances and flight durations in ways great-circle navigation on a globe predicts correctly.

Water level = no curve

Typical claim

Liquid water always finds a perfectly flat level surface, so oceans cannot wrap around a ball.

Globe-side response

Gravity predicts large-scale equipotential surfaces that look locally level over short distances but curve at survey scales.

Bedford Level proves flat

Typical claim

Historic level-water experiments over miles of canal showed no curvature drop.

Globe-side response

Refraction and setup errors in 19th-century trials are inconsistent with modern hidden-height tests that globe geometry predicts.

Eratosthenes experiment fails

Typical claim

Shadow-stick comparisons do not actually prove a distant Sun on a sphere when examined honestly.

Globe-side response

Simultaneous shadow angles scaling with latitude are predicted by a spherical Earth and inconsistent with a nearby spotlight Sun.

Horizon always flat

Typical claim

No matter how high you climb, the horizon line stays perfectly straight and proves Earth is not curving.

Globe-side response

A globe predicts subtle dip below eye level that grows with altitude, even when the line still appears straight to the eye.

High-altitude footage flat

Typical claim

Balloon and aircraft cameras never show an honest curve, only a flat horizon disk.

Globe-side response

Wide-angle lenses and modest altitudes are inconsistent with dismissing geodetic dip that careful surveys and corrected footage show.

Maps lie about distances

Typical claim

Official globe maps falsify southern distances to hide that azimuthal flat charts are the honest layout.

Globe-side response

Every flat projection must distort because a sphere cannot be unfolded isometrically, not because cartographers admit a disc.

Titanic sank on wrong map

Typical claim

Historic North Atlantic routes and iceberg lanes only make sense on flat-Earth charts, not globe navigation.

Globe-side response

Recorded crossing times and great-circle segments are inconsistent with azimuthal flat projections at North Atlantic scales.

Sun, Moon & sky

Local luminaries, sunsets, seasons, lunar light, eclipses, and atmospheric optics from the proof list.

Sun & Moon small and nearby

Typical claim

The Sun and Moon are roughly three thousand miles away, small local lights circling above a flat disc.

Globe-side response

Parallax limits, simultaneous visibility on opposite horizons, and eclipse geometry are inconsistent with nearby spotlights.

Sunsets by perspective

Typical claim

The Sun appears to set because it moves away and shrinks by perspective, not because Earth rotates away from it.

Globe-side response

Sunset timing, afterglow on clouds, and restored full-disk size at sunrise are inconsistent with a receding local lamp.

Sun circles above disc

Typical claim

The Sun travels in a circle above the flat plane, lighting a spot below like a close spotlight.

Globe-side response

A circling spotlight predicts sharp terminator edges and equal day lengths at all longitudes on a latitude, which observations contradict.

Seasons impossible on globe

Typical claim

Opposite hemispheric seasons cannot work on a ball and require a circling flat Sun instead.

Globe-side response

A tilted spinning globe predicts opposite solstice extremes and matching day-length shifts in both hemispheres.

Moon is self-luminous

Typical claim

The Moon shines with its own cool light and does not primarily reflect sunlight from a distant Sun.

Globe-side response

Moonlight spectra, phased illumination, and albedo match reflected sunlight and are inconsistent with an independent cold lamp.

Moon phases are local

Typical claim

Everyone sees the same lunar face and phase at once, which flat models treat as proof of a nearby disc.

Globe-side response

A distant Moon with synchronous rotation predicts shared phases worldwide with predictable lag by longitude.

Eclipses pre-programmed

Typical claim

Solar and lunar eclipse cycles fit flat-Earth schemes better than textbook globe diagrams.

Globe-side response

Umbra width, duration, and geographic tracks match orbiting spheres at measured distances, not ad hoc flat lighting.

Blue sky is the dome

Typical claim

The blue sky is light scattered inside a glass-like firmament barrier above the flat world.

Globe-side response

Rayleigh scattering from a deep atmosphere predicts blue daylight without any solid shell and matches laboratory gas physics.

Stars & firmament

Dome stars, Polaris, southern skies, star trails, meteors, and comets as proof-list fixtures.

Stars on firmament dome

Typical claim

Stars are small lights fixed on a close rotating dome, not distant suns spread through space.

Globe-side response

Stellar parallax, spectroscopy, and latitude-dependent sky sets are inconsistent with a nearby decorative shell.

Polaris proves center

Typical claim

Polaris hovering near the north celestial pole only makes sense on a flat disc centered on the North Pole.

Globe-side response

A tilted rotating globe predicts Polaris altitude equals observer latitude in the northern sky.

Southern Cross proves nothing

Typical claim

Southern circumpolar constellations cannot fit a spinning ball Earth and therefore do not support the globe.

Globe-side response

A southern celestial pole with opposite rotation sense predicts the star trails and constellations seen below the equator.

Star trails prove flat rotation

Typical claim

Circumpolar star-trail photos show the sky rotating above a stationary flat Earth, not a spinning ball.

Globe-side response

Opposite rotation directions around two celestial poles are inconsistent with a single dome spinning as one rigid disk.

Space & NASA

Agency hoax claims, CGI imagery, ISS skepticism, Apollo denial, satellites, and astronaut disputes.

NASA = Masonic hoax

Typical claim

NASA and allied space agencies are Freemasonic propaganda fronts whose logos prove the globe hoax.

Globe-side response

Graphic symbolism is not evidence of faked launches and is inconsistent with independent tracking of missions and ephemerides.

ISS is film set

Typical claim

The International Space Station is filmed in aircraft parabolas or underwater tanks, not in orbit.

Globe-side response

Amateur telescopes resolve the station's shape and pass times that match public orbital elements over multi-hour arcs.

Satellites = balloons / towers

Typical claim

Orbiting spacecraft are balloons, drones, or ground relays, never real satellites in space.

Globe-side response

GPS fixes, TV feeds, and Starlink handoffs require line-of-sight to fast-moving transmitters predicted by orbital math.

Apollo landings 100% fake

Typical claim

Apollo Moon landings were staged, often attributed to Stanley Kubrick, because humans never walked on the Moon.

Globe-side response

Retroreflectors, independent lunar imagery, and mission telemetry archives are inconsistent with a purely staged production.

Astronauts see no curve

Typical claim

Crew members admit they never saw Earth's curvature, proving they lie about the view from orbit.

Globe-side response

At station altitude the horizon subtends a wide arc that looks nearly flat in narrow fields of view, consistent with sphere geometry.

GPS without satellites

Typical claim

Phone navigation works using secret ground towers, so orbiting transmitters are unnecessary.

Globe-side response

Signal timing, sky-view geometry, and oceanic coverage are inconsistent with tower-only flat models.

Motion, gravity & physics

Rotation denial, aircraft arguments, Foucault and Coriolis disputes, and gravity replacement claims.

No felt rotation or orbit

Typical claim

Earth cannot spin at roughly 1,000 mph while also orbiting the Sun at 67,000 mph without everyone feeling constant acceleration.

Globe-side response

Uniform rotation and free-fall orbit predict no net force in co-moving frames, so everyday motion feels like rest.

Airplanes prove no rotation

Typical claim

Pilots fly level without constantly dipping the nose, so aircraft cannot be compensating for a curving Earth.

Globe-side response

Aircraft hold local level relative to the gravity field, which on a globe is consistent with following a curved path at speed.

All pilots lie

Typical claim

Commercial pilots never see curvature and stay silent because airlines enforce the globe story.

Globe-side response

At cruise altitude the horizon dip is subtle in side windows but measurable, and many aviators document great-circle navigation openly.

Foucault pendulum fake

Typical claim

Museum Foucault pendulums are driven or rigged because a free swing should not trace Earth's rotation.

Globe-side response

Latitude-dependent precession rates match a rotating Earth without hidden motors when setups are audited.

Coriolis weak or fake

Typical claim

The Coriolis effect is exaggerated or fabricated because bathroom demos fail to show consistent spin.

Globe-side response

Coriolis is negligible at small scales; large-scale weather and long ballistic paths show the predicted rotation signature.

Gravity doesn't exist

Typical claim

There is no universal gravitational pull, objects fall because they are denser than the medium below.

Globe-side response

Identical fall rates in vacuum, orbital motion, and latitude-dependent weight are inconsistent with density sorting alone.

Up/down nonsense on ball

Typical claim

People on opposite sides of a ball would hang upside down, making "down" meaningless on a globe.

Globe-side response

On a sphere, down is predicted to point toward the center everywhere, giving a consistent local vertical.

Gravity measurements fake

Typical claim

Cavendish-style experiments and published gravitational constants are staged to fit globe equations.

Globe-side response

Independent gravimeter profiles and latitude variation are predicted by a spherical mass distribution and reproduce worldwide.

Antarctica & navigation

Ice-wall perimeter claims, south-pole denial, expedition conspiracies, and circumnavigation disputes.

Antarctica = ice wall

Typical claim

Antarctica is a ring of ice guarding the edge of the flat Earth, patrolled to stop explorers.

Globe-side response

Documented crossings, research stations, and tourism traffic are inconsistent with a sealed rim perimeter.

South pole doesn't exist

Typical claim

There is no southern pole on a ball, only the ice-wall boundary of the enclosed disc.

Globe-side response

South-pole stations, 24-hour sun cycles, and southern circumpolar stars are inconsistent with a single north-centered hub only.

They hide the ice wall

Typical claim

Military expeditions such as Operation Highjump were sent to guard the rim, not to explore a continent.

Globe-side response

Declassified mission records and modern civilian Antarctic access are inconsistent with a permanent perimeter defense conspiracy.

No one crossed Antarctica

Typical claim

Independent explorers cannot traverse Antarctica, proving the outer ice wall blocks passage.

Globe-side response

Multiple overland and sailing circumnavigations include routes that cross the southern ocean and Antarctic coastline.