gjm comments on Ritual Report 2012: Life, Death, Light, Darkness, and Love. - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Raemon 23 December 2012 06:56PM

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Comment author: gjm 24 December 2012 04:40:49PM 1 point [-]

This song does, in fact, contain a factual error.

Galileo's recantation was not the result of being tortured. (Without looking it up, I'm about 99% sure he was never tortured and I don't think he was even "shown the instruments of torture", something they apparently used to do as a first step.)

Comment author: Raemon 24 December 2012 04:46:58PM 0 points [-]

Yup. (The admittedly minimal research I did said that he was shown the instruments of torture, but the details seemed sketchy).