Indigenous knowledge production and dissemination is an essential feature to get a better insight into Global South countries. Graney’s recently published Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo, my review of which should, hopefully, appear here in the not to distant future. After all, a new "Galileo" might assert that the Earth is indeed the Universe's stationary center ( some people actually do assert this).

Bumblebee argument • Fatwa envy • Gotcha argument • Hoyle's fallacy • Intuition pump • Logic and Creation • Not Circular Reasoning • Peanut butter argument • Great Beethoven fallacy • Fallacy of unique founding conditions • Evil is the absence of God • Argument from first cause • How do you know? The stakes are high as Father Michael and his team race against time to uncover the truth behind this pulse-pounding mystery. It does not follow that because the first group were persecuted for political reasons that the criminals were in the right. An example of this fallacy would be "My opponent for office just received an endorsement from the Puppy Haters Association.With no time to lose, Father Michael's team is forced to divide and conquer, pursuing every lead to recover the stolen treasures. As you might imagine, falling for the Galileo Gambit takes quiet a bit of hubris, or what you might refer to this as a certain level of narcissism, along with a delusion of persecution.

The popularity of this fallacious way of thinking is one major reason why real scientists are often reluctant to debate creationists. Suggesting we climate sceptics have anything in common with antisemitism (whether intentional or not) is abhorrent. After all, if you have actual evidence to back yourself up, why would you need to rely on such a gambit? To achieve this end, this book adopts a broader approach encompassing development issues, democratic values, digitalization practices, gender equality issues, and more. One might argue that, since Nicolaus Copernicus was not persecuted for his theory (he died in 1543), it's just Galileo.So, when you're directly over the target (read: when the anti-aircraft defenses have failed to stop you) you would actually be getting less flak. Addendum: Seb Falk has pointed out that Dana Nuccitelli is a he not a she and I have made the necessary corrections to the text.