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[TomK]

I suggest people look up the history of Galileo and Copernicus. Despite their scientific discoveries, both were mistreated by the catholic church who condemned them and at least in the case of Copernicus, burned his books. Galileo was forced to abandon his research because it contradicted the church's teachings.

These are events that happened in the 16th and 17th century. We now have protestors telling astronomers that they cannot go to Mauna Kea to carry out their research.

It's happening again in the 21st century. How on earth did we get to this point again, hundreds of years later?