YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke

Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by vkou on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:33PM (#23064299)

Actually, Galileo did largely deliver self-aggrandizing spittle-flecked rants, full of personal attacks against other astronomers, which were complete rubbish. His arguments for why the Earth revolved around the Sun were complete nonsense, and were more theological, than scientific in nature.

His contemporaries were not particularly impressed, but he probably wouldn't have been censored, if he also didn't try his damned hardest to personally piss off everyone in his social circle.

His 'efforts' probably set the adoption of heliocentrism back by decades.

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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by zozbot234 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:53PM (#23064399)

And Isaac Newton did a lot of work in alchemy, occult studies and predictions of the apocalypse founded in the period equivalent to the "Bible code". I don't know why people assume that the foremost scientists in recorded history did not benefit from an overall intellectually-open social climate and worldview. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by knzhou on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:37PM (#23064322)

Interesting, do you have further reading on this to recommend?

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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by vkou on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:23AM (#23065393)

If you have a few hours to kill, page through this:

https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-great-ptolemaic-sma...

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