Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated

Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by ecshafer on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @01:56PM (#28855319)

We would be exactly where we are since Galileo didn't do that much to prove the heliocentric model.

Galileo also wasn't jailed for the heliocentric model, Galileo was jailed for writing a book, where The Pope was the stand in character for an idiot, overtly. And while we are more liberal, at the time insulting the pope in published material, in Italy, was a rather poor choice.

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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by bduerst on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:48PM (#28856705)

Yep. Galileo got himself into trouble not for his work on heliocentricity, but for publicly attacking an authority figure in the church.

It's interesting to see how we today project our science/fundamentalism schism onto culture of the past, when in reality, there wasn't that much of a dichotomy before the Scopes trial in the 1930s.

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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by cronix on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @07:02PM (#28858645)

You are making a pedantic argument to a philosophical point. Extrapolate the concepts.

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