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Re: Topband: opinion

To: "Bruce" <k1fz@myfairpoint.net>
Subject: Re: Topband: opinion
From: "Rick Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
Reply-to: richard@karlquist.com
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 10:11:31 -0700
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Bruce wrote:
> It's a balance.  Even a correct new idea sometimes takes it "in the neck"
> so to speak.  Think of all the crap the first  guy took from those that
> said the sun was circling the earth. After all you could see it for half
> of the circle.

That "guy" was Galileo to whom the "Galileo fallacy" refers:

Carl Sagan probably put it best when he said:

"They laughed at Galileo, they laughed at Newton,
but they also laughed at Bozo the clown".

Rick


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