just a bunch of crackpots taking the pi55, surely even the members don't believe it themselves, they just meet now and again and get rat ar5sed and talk a slightly different standard of cobblers than every other drunk! As jake says no worse that those who think the moon landings were faked or climate change isn't going on..
It has long been the case that English university debating societies often put forward a fairly outrageous motion which exercises the talents of budding barristers, I think the Flat-Earthers are formed in this mould. At Cambrige, Oliver Letwin once won the the motion, 'There are no trees in Canada' !