Leo Charles Ferrari (December 8, 1927 – October 7, 2010) was a St. Thomas University

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, noted

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scholar, and founding member of the organization

Flat Earth Society of Canada Anti-scientific beliefs in a flat Earth are promoted by a number of organizations and individuals. The claims of modern flat Earth proponents are not based on scientific knowledge and are contrary to over two millennia of scientific consensus ...

Flat Earth Society activities

Leo Ferrari was a founding member and head of the

, later renamed the Flat Earth Society (FES). In Ferrari's writings in support of the FES and the

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, he attributed everything from gender to racial inequality on the globularist and the

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model. Ferrari even claimed to have nearly fallen off "the Edge" of the Earth at Brimstone Head on Fogo Island. Ferrari was a key figure in the 1990 flat earth "documentary",

In Search of the Edge ''In Search of the Edge'' is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Scott Barrie and released in 1990.Sergio J. Aguilar Alcalá, "I Believe to Know: Scientific (Fake) Documentary and the Impasses of Scientific Knowledge". ''The Polish J ...

. In the accompanying study guide, Ferrari is outed as a "globularist," someone who believes the earth is spherical. The intent of the film was to promote critical thinking about media by " ttemptingto prove in convincing fashion, something everyone knew to be false."

Bibliography

* * ; Published Essays * ; Human Rights Pamphlets * ''The rise of human rights; a Canadian outline''. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Human Rights Commission, Dept. of Labour, 1970. * ''Human rights and the Canadian Indian''. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Human Rights Commission, Dept. of Labour, 1973. * ''Human rights in a changing world : the problem of preserving human values in the upheavals caused by science and technology''. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Human Rights Commission, Dept. of Labour, 1977. ; Poetry * ''The worm's revenge''. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Mortuary Press, 1968. * ''Over the Edge: Poems in Grateful Celebration of Fifty Years of Life, Love and of Laughter''. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Owl and the Pussycat, 1977.

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Leo C. Ferrari fonds
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrari, Leo Charles 1927 births 2010 deaths Australian emigrants to Canada People from Fredericton Neurological disease deaths in New Brunswick Deaths from Alzheimer's disease in Canada Augustine scholars Université Laval alumni