{"id":3019,"date":"2017-05-29T16:36:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2017-05-29T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:36:24","slug":"mythical-myths-27-the-galileo-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2017\/05\/29\/mythical-myths-27-the-galileo-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythical Myths #27 &#8211; The Galileo Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2017\/05\/the-galileo-trial-faux-news-from-the-17th-century.html\">3quarksdaily: The Galileo Trial: Faux News from the 17th Century<\/a>, <\/em>Leanne Ogasawara refers to several misconceptions about Galileo but her main point is suspect. She refers to a number of resources on the issue, some of which I have not yet read, but the most interesting to me is the <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ewebb\/Rome\/Coyne.pdf\">reaction<\/a> of (ex)Vatican Observatory Director George Coyne to his experience on the church&#8217;s\u00a0Galileo Commission in the 1980s.\u00a0Coyne was clearly frustrated by the abuse of process by which the Galileo Commission (of which he was a member) was purported to have identified the failings of the Church (and esp of the popes of the time) as a &#8220;myth&#8221;, so unless some of the other links convince me otherwise I will have to classify Ogasawara&#8217;s &#8220;Faux News&#8221; as yet another Mythical Myth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a03quarksdaily: The Galileo Trial: Faux News from the 17th Century, Leanne Ogasawara refers to several misconceptions about Galileo but her main point is suspect. She refers to a number of resources on the issue, some of which I have not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2017\/05\/29\/mythical-myths-27-the-galileo-trial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}