joe

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joe

joe

@scientus

Retired prof(CS), Aspiring artist (pencil,conte,pastels,watercolor), Interests include history of science.

Hamilton, Ontario Присоединился Mayıs 2012
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joe@scientus·
@redhistoria If you still believe the "Eppur Si Muove" myth in 2026 you probably shouldn't be using "Historia" as your moniker. There is a Spanish connection to the myth. See scientus.org/Eppur-Si-Muove…
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HISTORIA@redhistoria·
Galileo Galilei fue acusado de herejía por la Iglesia Católica en 1633 por defender el heliocentrismo, la teoría de que la Tierra gira alrededor del Sol. Este modelo contradecía la interpretación literal de las Sagradas Escrituras de la época, que situaban a la Tierra como el centro inmóvil del universo. ⚖️ El Juicio y la Condena  Acusación: Sospecha grave de herejía por sostener una doctrina "falsa y contraria a las Sagradas Escrituras". Sentencia: Fue condenado a prisión domiciliaria de por vida y se prohibieron sus libros. Abjuración: Para evitar la tortura o la muerte, Galileo fue obligado a retractarse públicamente de sus ideas ante el tribunal de la Inquisición. Leyenda: Se dice que tras su retractación murmuró la famosa frase: "Eppur si muove" (Y sin embargo, se mueve), reafirmando su creencia científica en secreto.
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joe@scientus·
@watson_jam8884 @TheHookham @WiretapMediaCa And with Ottawa crawling with reporters at the time the only pictures of this were from an "anonymous source". Really believable. The one taken by Trudeau's staff was another staged picture.
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Wiretap Media@WiretapMediaCa·
🚨EXPOSED: Irish patriots RIP THE MASK OFF a government FED planted in the National Fuel Protest—caught red-handed scheming to turn a peaceful rebellion into violent chaos!
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@TechLayoffLover If the workers knowledge and previous work was valuable enough to be rehired wouldn't the workers have the final word on what the salary should be. Contractors decide their own rates.
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Tech Layoff Tracker@TechLayoffLover·
Oracle just announced they're REHIRING 8,000 of the 30,000 workers they executed in March AS CONTRACTORS WITHOUT BENEFITS FOR 60% OF THEIR PREVIOUS SALARY Same fucking job. Same desk. Same manager who walked them out. But now they're "independent consultants" with zero healthcare, no stock options, and contracts that expire every 6 months I'm hearing the offshore teams they hired simultaneously are getting the permanent roles with full benefits while Americans get the contractor scraps Sources saying Larry Ellison's internal memo literally called it "workforce arbitrage optimization" - corporate speak for "let's destroy the American middle class for quarterly margins" $6.13 billion in profits last quarter while playing musical chairs with human lives The rehired contractors have to reapply for building access. THE SAME FUCKING BUILDINGS THEY WORKED IN FOR YEARS. Oracle's HR sent templates to managers: "We're excited to welcome back talent in a more flexible capacity" Translation: "We're going to work you to death without paying benefits and fire you the second our AI agents can do your job" Same workload. Same deadlines. Same impossible expectations. 60% of the pay and none of the security If you work at Oracle right now, screenshot everything and start interviewing today because you're next on the contractor conversion list
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@Corporealdaydrm If you revisit the 'deathbed publication' trope you should realize it never made sense.
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joe@scientus·
I think I understand where you are coming from. The 'status quo', money and power politics can stand in the way of science and medicine. Discussion of Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift was largely shut down even though it was presented as a hypothesis. Those touched by chemo-resistant cancer have good reason to suspect that there are more influences on cancer research than just finding a cure. With covid, the obsession with vaccines versus therapeutics raised questions too.
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joe@scientus·
Are you getting this confused with the 4 years the Church took to review Copernicus's de Revolutionibus. Oddly, from the 416 pages they only suggested 10 small textual changes mostly involving wording of individual sentences. Main intent was to make clear the model was hypothetical.
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@newstart_2024 Interesting story on the delayed acceptance of darwinism. It was initially welcomed but rejected afterwards because it wasn't plausible given the then accepted theories of heredity. It was resurrected because Mendel's particulate approach to heredity made it plausible.
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Camus@newstart_2024·
Bill Maher nailed it with this one. He pointed out how ideas that once sounded like pure chemtrail-level conspiracy theory can slowly move into legitimate discussion — then dropped a truth bomb: “Science has no final answer.” Even evolution didn’t get instant acceptance. It had to go through a real testing period. Maher’s reminder is spot on: when people rush to declare “the science is settled” and “the experts are 100% sure,” we should stay a little skeptical. Science is a process, not a final verdict. Certainty feels comforting, but history keeps showing it often needs more time and better evidence. The older I get, the more I appreciate this kind of intellectual humility. Anyone else nodding along to this? When have you seen today’s “settled science” turn out to need revision later?
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@MichalYouDoing The rudeness and invective was really surprising, especially between Galileo and Grassi and Galileo and Scheiner.
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Michal J A Paszkiewicz@MichalYouDoing·
Galileo forbade one of his students from publishing a letter the student wrote. He outlines this in his 1604 "Difesa contro alle calunnie et imposture di Baldessar Capra" [trans De Angelis, Galileo and the 1604 Supernova pp. 61-69] ...
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@McClureShawn Your approach of cherry-picking data to prove a point is anti-science.
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Shawn "All Outta Bubblegum" McClure
In the 1600s, the Church banned books by Copernicus and Galileo for proposing that the Earth revolved around the sun. Galileo was charged with heresy and sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life. Christianity is anti-science because knowledge threatens their God.
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Copernicus was a Catholic canon and the church was involved in publishing his work. There was more involved in the Galileo Affair than science. Even if your examples were legitimate, would Galileo's Dialogo or Copernicus's be more important than Gregor Mendel's genetics, or LeMaitre's Big Bang theory. There are thousands of less well-known contributions as well. E.g. Two of the more commonly used astronomical telescopes are named after Catholic priests.
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@OMGarridoG @EdwardK97329 History is not magical. Modern science did not arise at the press of a button. It took a long time and needed enablers. The church provided several enablers and often supported scientific inquiry.
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Oscar Garrido Gómez@OMGarridoG·
No. The Enlightenment and modern science arose largely by breaking clerical authority, not by obeying it. Copernicus, Galileo, and others learned that lesson the hard way. Western law draws heavily from Roman law, and moral philosophy long predates Christianity—see the Stoics, Aristotle, Confucius, and Ashoka. And the idea of human dignity did not begin with Christianity; it evolved through centuries of philosophy and struggle. Christianity inherited much of that tradition—and later claimed the copyright.
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Oscar Garrido Gómez@OMGarridoG·
Los niños criados por los ateos son bien educados, no son homófobos, no son racistas, son tolerantes y amorosos. No están preocupados u obsesionados con lo que sucede después de la muerte. Yo les he enseñado a mis hijos con la verdad: que van a estar donde estaban antes de que nacieran, mentalmente, por lo que no hay nada por que preocuparse. Es seguro, es reconfortante. También les digo que sus cuerpos volverán al polvo de estrellas. Ellos son perfectamente felices con eso. Yo no les digo que su abuela muerta los puede ver, o que cuida de ellos. Creo que ese tipo de cosas puede causar ansiedad. No quiero que tengan miedo de las cosas que no son reales, pienso que hemos evolucionado más allá de eso. (Paula McIntyre-Whyte)
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Answers4Sean 🇨🇦@Answers4Sean·
Please give some love to @LandmarkCinemas who have already allowed 1 screening and now another!!! Together we win. 💯♥️🫂💪😢
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Big Dave Of Abuja@DavidOchiama·
@MichalYouDoing Are you for real? He was going to be killed, he was asked to recant and he refused despite pleadings from friends and colleagues.
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