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by eatplayrove 3502 days ago
What a load of BS. No one believed the earth was flat in whatever "not so long ago" is, certainly no one was burned at the stake for it.
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Calling Giordano Bruno BS is a new high in this topic.
Right. Giordano Bruno did NOT believe in flat earth - NO ONE in his time did. His scientific schtick was heliocentrism. And there is no proof that he was burned for that reason -- it is mainly understood it was for religious doctrine reasons. Even if he was, the people who burned him are not analogous to the 97% of the scientific community.