By politics, I don't mean political parties.* I mean ideologies
   in general.* I should have been more specific.* By political, I
   mean taking a strong stance. There's modern science and then
   there is modern science politics.* There's a difference between
   them but sometimes they get mixed together. I love the man and I
   think he is doing marvelous things.* But I will give an example
   of the politification of science education: Galileo.* I actually
   stopped watching the Science channel about two years, after a
   steady diet of it for about three years: NdGT [love the
   shortening of his name btw :P ] - in recanting the tale of
   History, within a few sentences, he linked together: a) the
   Spanish Inquisition b) Salem Witch Trials c) burning at the
   stake d) The Catholic Church e) Galileo's house arrest and gag
   order, which was a political move and not an ideological one and
   wasn't all that bad, considering that they were paying his bills
   and he was calling the current pope in idiot in veiled language.
   He was making fun of his boss.* They didn't stop his funding
   either. They paid for the scientific research. Anyway, NdGT gave
   the same bad account of history that I learned in school in the
   80s, which was wrong and ahistorical. To hear it AGAIN, 35 YEARS
   LATER, after I've since learned a non-politicized account of the
   events (the one historicans believe - and HISTORY is their
   expertise) bothered me greatly... Maybe the man made a mistake.*
   I'm not taking away from the good he does.* Maybe he opens his
   mouth without thinking sometimes.* We all do that.* But this was
   accompanied with graphics and illustrations, all to give this
   impression about the VICTORIOUSNESS of SCIENCE over... I dunno,
   whatever it is they didn't like. that's the politics I'm
   referring to. When history is distorted to serve a purpose, I
   don't like it.* I'm sensitive to it, and expect a lot out of
   spokespeople for Science to get things correct.* Not just the
   science but also the history. I don't need your agreement with
   my thinking, but I hope for at least some understanding where
   I'm coming from. In short, he was perpetuating this:
   [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_thesis which is
   historically incorrect but it contains a popular set of myths.

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