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by TreyS 4618 days ago
Perhaps I should have used a different example, but the main point was that Galileo's supposed Leaning Tower experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo's_Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa...) is counter intuitive and it's harder to convince laypeople of counter intuitive ideas especially when the "competing" idea is more intuitive.