Category: Absurdity

• Galileo Still Matters

  Just weeks after an Australian group hit the news for denying global climate change while evoking the name and spirit of Galileo, we have another scientifically- and historically-dubious set of claims, also in the name of the Italian astronomer-physicist. The culprit this time is Republican Presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry (warning: link requires…

  Matthew R. Francis

  September 8, 2011

  Absurdity, Astronomy, Evolution, Pseudoscience, Public Figures, Society

  Astronomy, Climate change, Education, Evolution, Pseudoscience