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alienist comments on The Galileo affair: who was on the side of rationality? - Less Wrong Discussion

35 Post author: Val 15 February 2015 08:52PM

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Comment author: alienist 17 February 2015 06:38:23AM 8 points [-]

Yes, not quite a trial but the condemnations at the University of Paris. In every statement falsifiable among them, the church was eventually correct, e.g., the universe isn't infinitely old, vacuum exists, astrology is bunk.