Copernicus -- life-long Catholic church employee & bishop's nephew -- wrote a book dedicated to the pope, highly praised by at least 3 bishops & a cardinal, & ushered into print by a professor from Martin Luther's Wittenberg. Galileo's trial by the Inquisition was 90 years later. "Progress." 🤷‍♂️

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Most excellent! It is a fascinating story.

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It seems I've annoyed @profaliceroberts.bsky.social. And apparently I'm a terrible person and a "misogynist", no less! 🤔 Some context. Last year Roberts, a biologist, paleopathologist and sometime TV presenter, went well outside her areas of

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... a fascist because I post on Twitter. I actually hate what Twitter (I refuse to call it X) has became under that vile turd Elon Musk. But I debunk bad history and there is vastly more bad history there than over here. This place is nicer, but a bit dull. I supppose the Alice Robert fan club ...

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... prefers Mutual Agreement Societies to debate and rough and tumble. I prefer to go where the bad history is and tackle it head on. Also, it seems I was right that Roberts posted her weird misrepresentations of my review, but ... didn't actually link to the review itself. How *very* odd. 🤔

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