How I Learned to Love Pseudoscience

[Brian37]

To be fair, the church of Galileo's time were "skeptics" to what he said.

I suppose you could take that position since Galileo's hypothesis contradicted the accepted theory, but he did bring new evidence to the table via telescope.  Even so, it hardly justifies their reaction to his ideas.

Skepticism is not a bad thing; it's a healthy part of the scientific method and forces scientists to do the hard work.

I was being sarcastic about being "fair" to the Church of Galileo's time. Skepticism isn't a bad thing, but fear combined with looking for an excuse to deny facts is willful ignorance, not skepticism. I agree 100% with your post here.