2007-04-07 04:52:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Of course. Galileo is probably the most spectacular example for "claiming" the earth revolved around the sun, and then Darwin was attacked for showing that evolution was the only viable way of explaining how complex creatures like bats and humans could be produced.
2007-04-07 05:00:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well I dont know about concrete answers. However, there were cases in history where researchers were persecuted for their discoveries yes. One instance was when they found out about gospels that were left out of the bible. Christopher columbus and gallileo were persecuted for asserting the world was round.
2007-04-07 05:00:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. In the 50s, an scientists named Velikovski was black balled from the scientific community because he found evidence that the earth went into a great upheaval around 11,000 years ago. This flew in the face of a slow and steady evolution of the planet and its living organisms.
2007-04-07 06:05:44 · answer #3 · answered by -M- 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Galileo Galilei was harassed and eventually tried for heresy for his support of the radically heretical Copernican notion that the Earth orbits the Sun and not vice versa.
He was apparently popular enough that he was given permanent house arrest rather than being burned at the stake, but there's at least one example.
2007-04-07 05:23:15 · answer #4 · answered by oimwoomwio 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scholars, philosophers and men of science have been persecuted since the dawn of man.
2007-04-07 04:57:28 · answer #5 · answered by mymadsky 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Of course. There has been conflict between "science" and "religion" for eons.
Coincidence that modern science places itself at odds with religion? I think not.
Too bad, too. Rational minds understand that both religion and science have a place in mankind.
2007-04-07 05:03:22 · answer #6 · answered by Shrink 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Conservative Limbaugh types will state anti global warming scientists are persecuted.
2007-04-07 04:56:35 · answer #7 · answered by Firesidechat 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes, and usually by the church.
Galileo was, in fact, tortured until he recanted his scientific discoveries and theories.
2007-04-07 05:02:03 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You mean like the ones speaking out against global warming, or the meteorologists that don't push global warming on their news broadcasts can lose their jobs!
2007-04-07 05:05:11 · answer #9 · answered by Bunz 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it is because they were, fireside, anybody who wouldn't go along with the 'agenda' lost their funding.
2007-04-07 04:57:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋