[extropy-chat] Famous author self destructs in public!Filmateleven.

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Charlie wrote:
> >
> > Urban legends don’t aid the debate. Galileo was to a very large
> > extent *protected* by the then Pope, who was a friend of his;
> > what got him into trouble was court politics, aggravated by his
> > inability to keep his mouth shut at the right time. You will note
> > that Galileo was *not* burned at the stake despite this being a
> > fairly common outcome for  heretics at the time ... and that the
> > reason for the draconian response  to heresy was that it had
> > political implications: religious doctrine  was then the 
> > accepted way of understanding how the world works, and questioning
> > its veracity raised implications for the way state policy was
> > formed. That’s *never* a safe or easy thing to do; we can see it
> >  today in the way the Bush administration treats science funding
> > in  areas that don’t appear to support their preconceptions.

Or in the way the UN, EU, and the Club of Rome is trying to shove
Global Warming and Peak Oil down everyone's throats with lies about the
number and types of scientists signing off on their side of reality.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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