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    Burning Galileo - The Vital Question: The Rules of Rhetoric, The Socratic Method, and Critical Thinking, #1
    Burning Galileo - The Vital Question: The Rules of Rhetoric, The Socratic Method, and Critical Thinking, #1
    Burning Galileo - The Vital Question: The Rules of Rhetoric, The Socratic Method, and Critical Thinking, #1
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    Burning Galileo - The Vital Question: The Rules of Rhetoric, The Socratic Method, and Critical Thinking, #1

    By Edgar Asimov Poe

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    What would happen if Galileo were alive today?


    What happens when you oppose the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models?

    Would he survive Western Civilization and the Politically Correct Thought Police?

    This SHORT STORY is a brisk and refreshing walk through the Socratic Method as applied to Global Warming and Climate Change (e.g. AGW- Anthropogenic Global Warming.)


    Burning Galileo is a new addition to the great socially critical tradition of Mike Cernovich, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Shellenberger.

    Inspired by Socrates, Galileo, Freeman Dyson and Richard A. Muller

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEdgar Asimov Poe
    Release dateNov 1, 2021
    ISBN9781536500295
    Burning Galileo - The Vital Question: The Rules of Rhetoric, The Socratic Method, and Critical Thinking, #1
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    Edgar Asimov Poe

    Hello dear Reader! "Edgar Asimov Poe is the name of a tormented author living in exile." My writings are chiefly about the eternal struggle between the emotional and the rational mind. I would love to hear from You! Come join me and the other fans on my Facebook page! Here you can read and see preliminary materials, and EVEN participate in the Creative Process! 

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      Burning Galileo - The Vital Question - Edgar Asimov Poe

      Dedicated to Galileo Galilei

      In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads. Such arguments in support of their fixed idea as they hit upon themselves or hear set forth by others, no matter how simple and stupid these may be, gain their instant acceptance and applause. On the other hand whatever is brought forward against it, however ingenious and conclusive, they receive with disdain or with hot rage — if indeed it does not make them ill. Beside themselves with passion, some of them would not be backward even about scheming to suppress and silence their adversaries.—Galileo

      Part I

      Burning Galileo

      BurnHim.com

      Hey Lance, are you going to the burning today? said Mark.

      There's a burning? Where?

      "The usual; 'BurnHim.com' where else? They really pulled out all the stops this time. They got a guy who says he's Galileo!"

      Bwahahaa! You mean like an actor?

      Yeah, whatever. It's hard to tell nowadays — what's real or not in internet. But whoever he is, he does a damned good job.

      Lance opened his laptop and navigated to BurnHim.com, once there he clicked on the video player with the 'Live Feed' banner above it.

      Look at that, he even has those funny baggy pants on. Just like the guy who stands in front of the Drake hotel!

      The Man Called Galileo

      The man called Galileo stood on the pallets stacked neatly around the wooden pole. They were standard wooden pallets, stacked three deep. His hands were bound behind him, and to the pole.

      He had rotten teeth, and long stringy hair. He  wore  the attire of a well-to-do seventeenth century citizen. The sweat on his face accentuated the rough texture of his skin and his bulbous nose.

      Behind studio 25 in Universal Studios, on the edge of the hill overlooking the 101 freeway, the film crew had built a makeshift outdoor court. On the studio's exterior wall hung a leaderboard with the results from the online poll. There were three camera men, all at strategic positions.

      You denier! The Inquisitor, a young man with a prepubescent mustache said, pointing at Galileo.

      What do you mean 'denier'? Asked Galileo, You haven't proven anything yet. I can't be a denier. If you have failed to convince me, the failure is yours.

      But look at this; we have a consensus of sci-en-tists!

      Galileo replied, That's all fine and good sir, but you still haven't proven anything.

      Global Warming exists! It's a thing. How dare you go against science?

      I'm sorry, but you haven't presented any science today. All I have seen from you is illusory correlation. Will you show me the actual science?

      BURN HIM! Screamed 1.3 billion citizens of earth at their laptops and mobile phones.BURN HIM Flashed at the top of

      1.3 billion computer screens in the internet watching world.

      At the bottom of their browsers were two large oval buttons, one green and marked 'Burn Him'; the other orange and marked 'He's Right'. Below the buttons were their respective vote counts: 1.3 billion for 'BURN HIM' and 197 for 'HE'S RIGHT'. This appeared instantaneously on the leaderboard.

      Look you denier, we found isotopes in the atmosphere.

      What are isotopes? Asked Galileo.

      Ha! the Inquisitor looked at the cameras and smiled, knowing that the worldwide audience understood now Galileo's obvious stupidity.

      The Inquisitor read from his clipboard: Isotopes are variants  of  a  particular  chemical  element  which  differ  in neutron number. One carbon isotope, C14, is radioactive and dies away to undetectable levels in approximately 50,000 years, let's call this 'natural carbon'. Now if we humans burn a lot of things, like the fuel in our cars, the carbon released by this burning displaces the natural carbon. We have verified this, this proves that global warming is manmade!

      Wait a second, said Galileo, You say you have actually measured the different kinds of carbon in the atmosphere?

      Yes.

      And the manmade carbon is displacing the natural carbon?

      Yes.

      So how does that prove anything? How does that cause — or better said, prove causation in this case?

      The Inquisitor rolled his eyes. 1.3 billion viewers on earth sat on the edge of their seats. Lance wrestled with his laptop and screamed, Yes! —give it to him! —denier! —redneck! — kook!

      The Inquisitor continued: Look, I'll explain it again; rising carbon dioxide levels are due to human activity. The carbon atom has several different isotopes: If rising atmospheric carbon dioxide comes from fossil fuels — that we burn in our vehicles; the 'natural carbon' should be falling. And this is what IS occurring and the rising temperature trend correlates with the trend in global emissions. That, my friend, is proof.

      But my good sir, countered Galileo, you just said it yourself. '...the trend correlates with the trend..' I'm sorry but correlation is not causation.

      The Inquisitor looked at Galileo with empty eyes, one eyebrow raised.

      Galileo continued, Furthermore, 'he who makes the claim, has the burden of proof.' You have not proven that this 'manmade' carbon has caused anything. You have only verified that it is there. I commend you for this, but everything that follows after that has been nothing but illusory correlation— [1]

      "We have

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