The Galileo Gambit (Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers)

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In the West, this dodge was first employed on a large scale by early Christians, many of whom deliberately entered into confrontations with the Roman state and then obtained martyr status when they were executed, all according to plan. [6] This allowed the Church to ask such questions as, " Would the Disciples die for a lie?" Sagan, Carl (1979). Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science. Random House. p. 64. ISBN 9780394501697. I confess to assuming a flat Earth for my script to assemble pathway segments in Google Earth. Saves 'rithmetic. Haven't ridden my bike off edge so far. 'course I wear a helmet, just in case. This conspiratorial mumbo jumbo inevitably arises when people deny facts that are supported by an overwhelming body of evidence and are no longer the subject of genuine debate in the scientific community, having already been tested thoroughly. As evidence mounts, there comes a point at which inconvenient scientific findings can only be explained away by recourse to huge, nebulous and nefarious agendas such as the World Government or Stalinism.

In a nutshell, Galileo was right because he was right – not because he was ridiculed. Examples of Galileo GambitThere is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

Not All Unpopular Ideas Are Correct: Just because an idea is ridiculed or rejected doesn’t necessarily make it correct. History is replete with unpopular ideas that were indeed incorrect.Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievious to to its true progress.– Sir William Siemens, 1880, on Edison’s announcement of a sucessful light bulb. Appeal to tradition• Appeal to novelty• Appeal to nature• Argument from morality• Argumentum ad martyrdom• Big words• Certum est quia impossibile est• Morton's fork• Friend argument• Exception that proves the rule• Extended analogy• Hindsight bias• Race card• Moralistic fallacy• Release the data• Gish Gallop• Terrorism-baiting• Uncertainty tactic• Greece-baiting• Ham Hightail• Red-baiting• Gore's Law• Nazi analogies• Mistaking the map for the territory• Red herring• Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur• Presentism• Sunk cost• Two wrongs make a right• Flying carpet fallacy• My enemy's enemy• Appeal to ancient wisdom• Danth's Law• Argumentum ad lunam• Balance fallacy• Golden hammer• Loaded question• Escape to the future• Word magic• Spider-Man fallacy• Sanctioning the devil• Appeal to mystery• Informal fallacy• Common sense• Post-designation• Hyperbole• Relativist fallacy• Due diligence• Straw man• Good old days• Appeal to probability• Infinite regress• Circular reasoning• Media was wrong before• Is–ought problem• Ad iram• Just asking questions• Pink-baiting• Appeal to faith• Appeal to fear• Appeal to bias• Appeal to confidence• Appeal to consequences• Appeal to emotion• Appeal to flattery• Appeal to gravity• Appeal to hate• Argument from omniscience• Argument from silence• Argumentum ad baculum• Argumentum ad fastidium• Association fallacy• Broken window fallacy• Category mistake• Confounding factor• Counterfactual fallacy• Courtier's Reply• Damning with faint praise• Definitional fallacies• Equivocation• Fallacy of accent• Fallacy of accident• Fallacy of amphiboly• Gambler's fallacy• Imprecision fallacy• Moving the goalposts• Nirvana fallacy• Overprecision• Pathos gambit• Pragmatic fallacy• Quote mining• Argumentum ad sarcina inserta• Science doesn't know everything• Slothful induction• Spotlight fallacy• Style over substance• Toupee fallacy• Genuine but insignificant cause• Argument from incredulity• Appeal to age• Argumentum ad nauseam• Phantom distinction• Appeal to common sense• Argumentum ad hysteria• Omnipotence paradox• Argument from etymology•

Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. - Thomas Edison, 1889

If you are addicted to nicotine but terrified of the effort required to give up smoking, it might be comforting instead to accuse medical researchers of being oligopolists (whatever that means). Why the Prime Minister would employ such flawed logic, and contradict scientific research, is puzzling. Galileo Likewise, if you are a former coal miner, like Malcolm Roberts, it is perhaps easier to accuse climate scientists of colluding to create a world government (whatever that is) than to accept the need to take coal out of our economy. Returning for another Father Michael Dominic story, Gary McAvoy dazzles once more. As McAvoy utilises the insights of Ronald L. Moore to enrich the story, the reader is treated to another stunning story, steeped in history, religious perspective, and thrilling development. When Father Dominic is invited to Chicago to attend a legal conference with a modern retrying of Galileo for heresy against the Catholic Church, things take a significant turn and old wounds are opened once more. With more enemies than Father Dominic can count, the action is sure to grow exponentially as the danger mounts. McAvoy does a stellar job and his foundation is only strengthened by Moore’s addition. And it's weird to talk about science being wrong when it's clearly a *marketing* failure. Of course there was no need for a computer in the home in 1977, there was no *application* for the computer in the home then. The best was Nieman Marcus' kitchen computer (for keeping recipes and the household budget) that required a week's training and a huge sum of money. No one with that kind of money did their own cooking then, so why bother? (I was once gifted with a Nieman Marcus kitchen computer for keeping my recipes. It was just as useless now as then and I returned it.)