I didn't write a column last week, but I'm back again with a new piece about the eternal struggle between politics and science.
Galileo could feel right at home with the current administration
By TERRY L. ESTEP
Galileo faced a Vatican City trial in 1633 and was eventually sentenced to house arrest for teaching the Copernican model of the solar system. Saying Earth revolved around the sun was a punishable breach of Vatican policy. Were he alive today, he might feel bitter nostalgia about the current occupant of the White House.
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Two columns in the same month... My poor little head is aching from the effort. Heh. We used to have a cartoon hanging in the
Mercury office at Glenville State College of a guy throwing a dart at a board which said "Today I am an expert in..." and trying to hit a target. That could be me at some point, trying to figure out what to right about. I have a feeling I could get on a good alternative medicine rant at some point.
