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Earth to Fred Thompson: Galileo was a Scientist!
by David Sassoon - Nov 6th, 2007
It's nice to see Fred Thompson exercise his biting sarcasm and rapier wit to try to demolish concern over global warming. This radio address is making the rounds, a 75-second tongue-in-cheek public service announcement for the Flat Earth Society.
Claiming that both Mars and Jupiter are, like the Earth, also warming, Thompson says:
This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non-signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle.
That's funny if you like mockery. It's not as extreme as the Rush Limbaugh variety, but it is still mockery, with science as the target. It's a form of stupidity that Thompson beautifully brings home to roost at the end.
I guess we shouldn’t even be talking about this. The science is absolutely decided. There’s a consensus.
Ask Galileo.
Fred, ah, Galileo was the scientist. The "consensus" that shut him up and forced him to recant was composed of a powerful network of ecclesiastics that included the Pope and the Inquisitors of the Church of Rome. It took the Church until 1992 -- 350 years -- to issue an official apology for suppressing scientific truth.
Ask Galileo, indeed.
We're sure he'd have a choice word or two in colorful Italian for you and your ilk.
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