How flat-earthers use misrepresentations of scale to promote their ideas

from blog Kevin Boone's website, | ↗ original
Misrepresentations of scale are common in the literature of organizations that seek to deceive. However, it's sometimes difficult, or unhelpful, to draw diagrams to scale. This article tries to explain the difference between benign and pernicious distortions of scale. I'm picking on the flat-earthers for the purposes of illustration, but the...