[Vision2020] LA Times Article Compares Pruitt EPA Censorship to Church Branding Galileo a Heretic

[Ted Moffett]

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I was going to compare EPA head Pruitt's censorship of global warming
science to the censorship of Galileo by the Catholic Church, then assumed
someone in the media must have already made this comparison.  A simple
Google Search revealed this indeed to be the case:

An excerpt of this article with the Galileo reference is pasted-in below:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-pruitt-undermines-20170406-story.html

Scott Pruitt undermines the EPA with anti-scientific ignorance

By David Horsey
Apr 07, 2017

EPA scientists who do research into the causes and effects of climate
change have been put on notice much like Galileo got put on the spot by the
Vatican. When Galileo proclaimed that the Earth revolves around the sun,
the church demanded that he recant or be branded a heretic. Like medieval
priests, Pruitt and Trump do not want to be contradicted by any scientific
findings that refute their belief that climate change is a hoax. That is
why Trump has also told NASA to stop collecting climate change data from
orbiting satellites.

* The Republican dogma of unrestrained economic exploitation drives the
president and his EPA chief. As a result, climate science has become a
heretical activity. It is no wonder government scientists have been very
busy since the election transferring vast amounts of research from
government computers to private servers. They fear it will all be destroyed
by the new Savonarolas in a technological bonfire of the vanities.*
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