The Galileo Gambit (Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers)

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It must be realized that there is a heaven and hell difference between modern science and modern engineering.

Understanding logical fallacies is important for critical thinking and being able to identify misinformation and lies. An extreme example of this might be the treatment of criminals under totalitarianism; while many genuine political dissidents were imprisoned in Siberia under Soviet rule, so were many thieves, murderers and rapists. Cranks who use the gambit to claim persecution by " Big Science" often fail to see the irony in the comparison — it was the Catholic Church that censored Galileo, not the "scientific establishment".As a result Vedic science is valid for the entire universe and for all time, past, present, and future. Ideas and government policies, whatever they are, are ventilated on step-motherly ration and fanned as ‘gossip', sometimes, to test their popularity or otherwise before they are implemented.

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We know from his letter to Kepler in 1597 that he was already a Copernican, nearly a decade before he pointed a telescope anywhere. The modern consensus is indeed that Galileo’s mechanics is his chief claim to fame (along with his telescopic observations), but as W. Since this is a science-oriented blog, we can reasonably expect commenters to understand science-based thinking, that includes asking oneself the question “what if I’m wrong? Similarly, Carl Sagan has stated that people laughed at geniuses such as Christopher Columbus and the Wright brothers, but "they also laughed at Bozo the Clown".

The popularity of this fallacious way of thinking is one major reason why real scientists are often reluctant to debate creationists.The remainder of this review will individually address the fallacies incurred by FIRELAN and then discuss the overall potential of the approach to mitigate wildfire spread and severity.

To my mind Galileo’s real claim to fame is the work he did in mechanics, concluding that acceleration due to gravity was uniform, deriving the equation s = u*t+ 1/2*a*t*t and proving that the path followed by a projectile in the absence of wind resistance would be a parabola. It is doubtful if the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change went to the right awardees at the right time. Confirmation bias, or selectively using facts, is the fallacy that consists of only looking for evidence that confirms what one wants to believe, or what one already believes [9].

Why do so many people believe in mind reading, past-life regression therapy, abductions by extraterrestrials, and ghosts? Unfortunately it would also result in only one tide per day – which minor problem Galileo overcame with a bit of hand waving.