[Cboldt]

Pontifical Academy of Flat Earth Sciences, the same outfit that persecuted Galileo.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Actually, it's not the same outfit. The Pontifical Academy of Sciences was (until Pope Francis basically gutted it by replacing all the keys advisors with leftists) a really outstanding Science & Ethics panel for the Church. They have (or had) nothing to be ashamed of.

You're thinking, I suggest, of the Office of the Inquisition, whose procedures against Galileo were illegal by their own charter. They had no business privileging Ptolemaic cosmogony and opposing heliocentrism, nor had they done so in the case of Copernicus 80 years previously.

I was an academic turf war more hahn a theological dispute..

And it was settled a long time ago.

Not quite so useful to the Narrative now, I suppose.