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Originally Posted by Tervuren
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Washington Irving, a famous fiction writer, touched up his "Columbus" story, as he did most anything else I have read by him.
And most people never take the time to find the truth; taking Irving's tall tales about Columbus at face value.
Including Columbus in the meme given the real truth is questionable.
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True enough in terms of Columbus and the entire scope of what he did (he was one bad actor). But as to the theory of round vs flat earth, I think he deserves to be included in this meme (though in fact the theory wasn't really all that controversial at the time)
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Originally Posted by Tervuren
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However, Galileo,
As then, so today, a scientific establishment of consensus which Galileo disagreed with.
And the fact checkers indeed would have gone with the scientific establishment then, as today.
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The fact checkers of his day did indeed try to strike down any disagreement with the scientific community's consensus.
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By "the scientific establishment then", don't you really mean the Catholic Church? They hardly based their position on any facts/scientific evidence, but rather their own erroneous interpretation of Scripture (and I say that as a devote Christian, though not a Catholic). And they were certainly aggressive in their censorship and the "cancel culture" of their time (e.g. the Spanish Inquisition).
But, if I have wandered too far into PARF territory, please call me on it and I will hush up.
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