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Originally Posted by alnorth
I didn't claim that. Cosmos did not claim he was a scientist, either, I guess you inferred that through that whole martyr throwaway line that probably should not have been in there. Cosmos flat-out stated that he was not a scientist.
He was a spiritual guy who believed in things for no reason, and one of those things happened to be correct, and later condemned by the church. Their later actions on Galileo a few years later also help to confirm that they weren't ambivalent about astronomy.
Again, your outrage is really overblown here. You may have thought you heard things that weren't stated.
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No, I watched the show and sat amazed while a complete fantasy was shown. Yes, they claim he wasn't a scientist but they very clearly make him out to be a scientific martyr. They also lie about the circumstances of his life... and conveniently left out the context in which he promoted the few "guesses" he got right. It was a useless fantastical account that served no purpose but to undermine the credible of the show.