“The science is clear,” and other fanatical assertions
By Simon Black – December 4, 2023
Galileo must have already known what was going to happen when, on February 24, 1616, a panel of eleven ‘experts’ commissioned by the Catholic church delivered its final report.
The panel had been ordered to assess Galileo’s work– specifically his ‘controversial’ assertion that other planets revolved around the sun– and not around the earth, as the church had been preaching for centuries.
And as expected, the panel ruled that Galileo’s theory (as well as similar work by other scientists) was “foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical. . . and that in regard to theological truth it is at least erroneous in faith.”
The following day Galileo was condemned by the Inquisition and ordered to “abandon these opinions” and “abstain completely from teaching or defending this doctrine and opinion or from discussing it” under penalty of imprisonment.
The experts had unanimously ruled against him. Everyone agreed. The science was clear. They were right, and Galileo was wrong. And possibly a heretic.
Obviously, we know today that Galileo and other scientists like Copernicus who came before him were correct. But the Inquisition of Galileo wasn’t about science. It was about power and control.
Those in power often believe that they must be seen as the ultimate authority. They need have all the answers… to know everything and to be right about everything. So whenever someone comes along with a different conclusion, they view this as a threat to their authority… and they squash it.
Galileo’s Inquisition wasn’t the first instance of this suppression. And it certainly wasn’t the last.
We saw it all through the COVID pandemic, with that magical phrase repeated over and over again: “the science is clear”.
‘The science was clear’, for example, that putting masks on children as young as two years old was somehow going to save millions of lives. And anyone with a different conclusion on the matter was told to abandon their heresy under penalty of being canceled.
But apparently the science wasn’t so clear after all. This past Saturday, The BMJ– the medical journal of the British Medical Association– published a new meta-analysis of 22 studies which concluded:
“Real world effectiveness of child mask mandates against [COVID-19] has not been demonstrated with high-quality evidence. The current body of scientific data does not support masking children for protection against COVID-19.”
Great article. As a side note, reportedly, Galileo ‘recanted’ to get out of prison, and one of his detractors approached him, mockingly saying, “Hey, I heard you recanted. Ha-Ha.” Galileo replied “Yes, I recanted”. Then he pointed at the earth beneath his feet and said “BUT IT’S STILL MOVING!!”.
Also there are excellent simple explanations for why targeting CO2 is outright false — a sham — created by power-crazed Lefties. At 400 parts per million (PPM), CO2 is doing all the damage it’s going to do as far as blocking heat escape from the earth. The effect is ‘saturated’. If it becomes 800 ppm, it makes almost no difference.
The analogy is that if a farmer paints a barn red, and he wants it to look even redder, he can add another coat of paint. And then another and another, and the barn looks the same — that’s what’s happening with CO2.
And *cutting* CO2 below 400ppm starts to have damaging effects on plant life …
The power-crazed fools who declared CO2 a ‘pollutant’ should be forced to spend the rest of their lives recanting and repenting — from prison.
Thanks, Dave. I wish you’d write a 700 word essay on the false narrative that only the ignorant believe.