Comment by defrost

The story of Copernican heliocentrism as commonly told is enough to bounce many out of the rut of thinking as the comment above implied that a large bureaucracy aligns itself with anything an individual thinks.

> The Galileo affair was not about heliocentrism. It was about a clash of egos and personalities

That's pretty much the way I heard it, outside of the Catholic Church, some 50 years ago. Make enough enemies, sooner or later they band together and strike if they can.

  > No doubt, you have in mind the oft-repeated Galileo affair
  > It isn’t as piquant as the story as typically told would have you believe.

It's like you're not reading my mind and yet somehow imagine you can.

If you enjoy quoting J. Budziszewski you may or may not get a kick out of Graham Priest and Dialetheism.