Yeah that must be it, we're not seeing the evidence that is right in front of our eyes.
Oh, you're seeing it all right. That's why you were unable to say much more than the above.
No, that was me winding down with a bit of gentle irony.
So where are we on this? Shaq says he backs some other basketball player in his belief of a flat earth, with anecdotes about his driving and flying across America in a light-hearted podcast, incidentally later in the same podcast when one of the others suggested the the original player wasn't serious but was making a statement about false news Shaq seems to agree, but hey.
FES jumps in with both feet, using the shaky argument that his doctorate (in an unrelated discipline) gives weight to his casual musings, whereas doctors in more relevant fields (astronomy, physics etc) are ignored, nothing new there.
Then Shaq drops the bomb, and FES goes into full paranoid mode, instead of taking him at his word this time it presses the conspiracy button and suddenly we find Sexpest & Tom are secret Shaqologist's and at heart the giant millionaire is a pussy who folds at the slightest pressure and not as some (admittedly not Shaqologist's) think, that he although he wasn't aware of the amount of furore, he didn't particularly care.
I will let you don your tin-foil hats and mount your soap boxes now, but leave you with a paraphrase from probably the biggest expert in what Shaq thinks, the man himself, he was joking you idiots.