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Gondolinian comments on The Galileo affair: who was on the side of rationality? - Less Wrong
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Galileo was eventually demonstrated correct. Were there trials where the church was eventually demonstrated correct?
A broken clock may be right twice a day, but you still shouldn't use it to tell time.
This is not a test as to whether we should judge the truth by what the church condemns, but rather for the OP's thesis that they are/were not specifically opposing the progress of truth on an object level.
I think we might both be misunderstanding each other? I thought your post was implying that the most important thing was that Galileo's theory was empirically confirmed and the church's falsified, I then intended to imply that someone could have a correct theory through blind luck while still being unscientific/irrational. (I don't know enough relevant history to have much of an opinion on the specific case of Galileo, I'm just pointing out the meta-level rule.)