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Popper's final opinion, which is the only one that counts, was that it DID meet the test of being scientific.
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Then everything Galileo ever said we must ignore, because his final opinion, issued as a recant of all his previous declarations, is the only one that counts.
Because we all know that persecution never ever forces a person to confess to something he doesn't actually believe.
Well, if you insist: Galileo's FINAL opinion, uttered on his deathbed, was: "and yet it moves," a repudiation of his earlier Recantation that the Earth was the center of the solar system. I'm confident that someone here can provide you with a citation if you need one.
Because we all know that persecution never ever forces a person to confess to something he doesn't actually believe.
The kinda off the point, considering that no one was "persecuting" Popper. Popper relates that his earlier erroneous opinion regarding natural selection being a tautology was based upon what others had told him, whereas his final opinion was based on his own personal reassessment of the matter. That's why his final opinion is the one that matters; it was the only one based on his own thinking, and not that of others.
Then everything Galileo ever said we must ignore...
So...your contention is that that Sir Karl Popper was threatened by the Scientific community? With what? Revocation of his knighthood? Loss of his tenured job? Loss of his Distinguised Chair? The suppression of his fundamental contributions to the nature of scientific inquiry regarding the need for credible falisifiability as an answer to David Hume's skepticism? Gonna need a lot of textbook revision for that to happen, Lucy.