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I've never run across anyone who declares what they say is true because of their sociopolitical position. Not even the pope in the Catholic church makes this c

• abdullahkhalids 6y ago
  ??? You just mentioned Galileo. The Church disagreed with him because god had made arguments from authority in the bible about Earth not moving etc. Bad school teachers sometimes make these arguments. "This is so, because I said so". Or "because the book says so". I don't know if you are a scientist, but one can often see young grad students believing in something only because the senior scientist believes it, and not because of actual good reasons. You also see arguments from authorities in non-scientific debates. "We must believe X because because historical figure Y said so."
  • yters 6y ago
    I think you should read up a bit more on the Galileo situation.