Topband: opinion

[Rick Karlquist]

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