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

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 February 2015 05:38:49PM 0 points [-]

I also previously believed the case showed that the Catholic church didn't care much about science, rather than having a consciously anti-science agenda. I believe it had a strong bias towards staying in charge.