Andrea Frova (general physics lecturer) "we who have dedicated our entire lives to science do not feel like listening, in our own home, to an authoritative voice that once again condemns Galileo"....
In the end, as the saying goes: with someone else's ass, we’re all gay. But did you all really think that these 4 stupid pseudo-physicists from these fucking (translated: communists) would come up with another one of their lame ideas to avoid being exposed and remembered in history as the most treacherous and idiotic race on Earth?
Here are the facts (or, better, the misdeeds): ".... the trial of Galileo was 'reasonable and just'....."
And here is the truth: "..... it is a phrase taken out of context and misinterpreted, which is also the reason behind the objections and the lack of visit from Professor Joseph Ratzinger to the renowned Roman university. It would be a phrase spoken during a 1990 intervention by the then cardinal and prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith regarding the trial of Galileo. In this phrase, the trial of Galileo would be defined as 'reasonable and just'. Too bad that Ratzinger was not expressing his own thoughts, but rather those of the agnostic and anarchistic epistemologist Paul K. Feyerabend." (source:
magdiallam.it The Pope's thought was: ".... a fusion of Faith and Reason. This was the profound meaning of both the Regensburg speech and that contested by the physics professors. As noted in 'Osservatore Romano' by the mathematician of Jewish origin Giorgio Israel, 'the 1990 speech can rightly be considered, for anyone who reads it with a minimum of attention, as a defense of Galilean rationality against the skepticism and relativism of postmodern culture' and that 'those who have a minimum understanding of the Pope's recent interventions on the subject know well how he regards with 'admiration' the famous statement by Galileo that the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.' Let us finally remember that it was Cardinal Ratzinger, along with John Paul II, who wanted the review of Galileo's trial (although many eminent Churchmen had already proposed honors to the great scientist: in the early 1900s, Cardinal Pietro Maffi proposed erecting a public monument to Galilei in Pisa). The facts of Regensburg and the facts of Rome. Linked by a disturbing red thread: the public lynching of a person based not on his thoughts, but on out-of-context quotations that are not his.....".
And, just to dot the "i", according to Paul K. Feyerabend "... in his opinion, to cite a historical example, there is no progress in the transition from the Ptolemaic theory to the Copernican one." He is an enemy of ".... abstractions, that is, of the abstracting processes typical of science or philosophy," as well as a defender of "Methodological Anarchism, that is, the philosophy according to which '.... we adopt a theory to explain a fact, and the fact itself presents differently once it has been explained through the theory. In other words, facts depend on the theories that explain them; it is therefore not possible to directly compare theoretical assumptions and factual evidence."
BUT do we really need to continue?
I hope not. Once again, we have demonstrated that we find it convenient to listen to/thinking/writing/saying only what suits us best, completely leaving out the motivations and/or historical facts that have led to outlining a trend/line of thought/philosophy/whatever.
Concl usion: the "ANARCHICAL THEORY" is a theory of knowledge, according to which the advancement of scientific research progresses best when it occurs outside of any authority, including the authority of "reason" or "method." Methodological anarchism involves the history of science and epistemology: every scientific paradigm shift comes from the continual violation of methodological rules and cultural and ideological conditioning. Traditional epistemology, according to Feyerabend, simplifies th
