Good point, Fuzzy. And when something comes along that contradicts their preconceived prejudices, they stick their fingers in their ears and start yelling, "Liar! Liar!" So we get an acclaimed scientist, who looks exhausted most of the time from working around the clock trying to save our lives, being snickered at by geniuses who think that the people he's standing next to in an awards ceremony are his "cronies." And let's not believe in what fact checkers show us; pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. Fact checkers deal too much with facts! We don't want that!
There's a famous story about the 17th century astronomer, Galileo. He got in trouble with the Church for claiming that his science proved that the earth moves around the sun, rather than the other way around. From Wikipedia:
"And yet it moves" or "Albeit it does move" is a phrase attributed to the Italian mathematician, physicist and philosopher Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in 1633 after being forced to recant his claims that the Earth moves around the Sun, rather than the converse. In this context, the implication of the phrase is: despite his recantation, the Church's proclamations to the contrary, or any other conviction or doctrine of men, the Earth does, in fact, move (around the Sun, and not vice versa).
There's a famous story about the 17th century astronomer, Galileo. He got in trouble with the Church for claiming that his science proved that the earth moves around the sun, rather than the other way around. From Wikipedia:
"And yet it moves" or "Albeit it does move" is a phrase attributed to the Italian mathematician, physicist and philosopher Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in 1633 after being forced to recant his claims that the Earth moves around the Sun, rather than the converse. In this context, the implication of the phrase is: despite his recantation, the Church's proclamations to the contrary, or any other conviction or doctrine of men, the Earth does, in fact, move (around the Sun, and not vice versa).