MikeB4: Galileo Galilei was a regarded as weirdo with a strange view

MikeB4: Galileo Galilei was a regarded as weirdo with a strange view

The same could be said for Donald Trump. That doesn't make them the same.

Handle9:

MikeB4: Galileo Galilei was a regarded as weirdo with a strange view

The same could be said for Donald Trump. That doesn't make them the same.

I am a fan of a good conspiracy theory but it has to have something to back it up. I will sometimes entertain them depending on what they are but the ones made out of boredom and tend to fearmonger are what ruin the whole fun of a conspiracy.

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MikeB4: Galileo Galilei was a regarded as weirdo with a strange view

No, he was a scientists who was actually using science to show all the planets revolved around the sun.

The nut cases were the church who without evidence decided the earth was the centre of the universe and everything revolved around that.

sir1963:

 

MikeB4: Galileo Galilei was a regarded as weirdo with a strange view

 

No, he was a scientists who was actually using science to show all the planets revolved around the sun.

 

The nut cases were the church who without evidence decided the earth was the centre of the universe and everything revolved around that.

 

You're totally missing the point.

What about Charles Darwin in his day?

These conspiracy people are dividing communities.

They utter their crackpot theories in public but refuse to discuss anything other than agreement; getting quite angry and even intimidating at any disagreement. 

Sadly, others nearby will generally try to close the whole conversation rather than allowing people to actively debunk this bullshit and so; the crackpots get to promote their nonsense and people become reluctant to challenge it.

In groups, particularly male groups for some reason (personal and online); conspiracy nonsense 'seems to be' the prevailing accepted 'knowledge' merely because challenging it creates so much tension.

IMO, the IQ of the nation has fallen at least 15 points in the past 5 years and continues to fall because political types use this crap to encourage division and gather the naive and uneducated masses as supporters.

MikeB4: Galileo Galilei was a regarded as weirdo with a strange view

Virtually every person who ever challenged the power elites with factual science has been attacked, murdered or belittled by the power elites. They derive their power from control and challenging that control is the ultimate crime.

Dictators, organised religion, the extremely wealthy, the big corporations etc all do this and always have

eracode:

 

You're totally missing the point.

 

What about Charles Darwin in his day?

 

Again, using science and evidence to back up his theories.

Yes he got a some tings wrong, but given he had no access to DNA etc etc he did remarkably well.

What we STILL have is religious groups believing if they can prove Darwin wrong, god becomes the right answer.

We can now discount Darwin altogether and evolution is STILL correct and proven.

Disagreeing with the currently held belief is not conspiracy so long as it backed up by repeatable, testable, provable evidence.

Einstein predicted the cosmic microwave background long before it was physically discovered, etc.

There is only one reason these nut jobs have any influence at all. It's down to the greatest evil of our time - social media.

I do wonder who "they" are

Zigg:

 

I do wonder who "they" are

 

"They" are whoever the reader wants them to be.

frankv:

 

Zigg:

 

I do wonder who "they" are

 

 

"They" are whoever the reader wants them to be.

 

 

 

Its like "Woke", its basically anything you don't like that other people do