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An interesting analogy I suppose.
While Galileo and Copernicus were advocating the heliocentric model, the overwhelming scientific ‘consensus’ wanted to stick with the Ptolemaic geocentric model.
Galileo and Copernicus faced extreme, and violent, opposition from entrenched ‘scientific’ community of the day who had a lot invested in their reputations to defend the consensus.

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Galileo and Copernicus faced extreme, and violent, opposition from entrenched ‘scientific’ community of the day who had a lot invested in their reputations to defend the consensus.

Yep - them religious scholars didn't want to admit that just because they were a big religion, they could possibly be wrong about anything - death was a common threat to those who came up with some new data that wasn't copacetic with doctrine.