RE: Covid 19 conspiracies dump
January 15, 2022 at 12:14 pm
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2022 at 12:14 pm by Fake Messiah.)
About our Galileo here. There is a famous book called "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science" by Martin Gardner, published in 1952 that is about pseudo-science and the mechanism of how it swindles people. You could say that James Randi's "Flim-Flam" is a "spiritual" successor to it.
Here is an excerpt on the traits of your average crank:
Sound familiar?
Here is an excerpt on the traits of your average crank:
Quote:He likens himself to Bruno, Galileo, Copernicus who were unjustly persecuted for their heresies. If he has had no formal training in the field in which he works, he will attribute this persecution to a scientific masonry, unwilling to admit into its inner sanctums anyone who has not gone through the proper initiation rituals. He repeatedly calls your attention to important scientific discoveries made by laymen.
Sound familiar?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
