Mike Flynn Tells the Rest of the Story...

...about Galileo. Turn out he did other stuff besides inadvertantly be the poster boy for proponents of scientism centuries after his death. He was what our ancestors used to call "irrascible" (i.e., a pain in the neck) and made enemies, not so much for being a valiant champion of Scientific Truth as for being said pain in neck.

The difficulty with the worship of Science proposed in the 19th Century and adopted by many people in the 20th is that scientists turn out to be, not gleaming robots of rational efficiency, but thoroughly human beings.