Here's a comment that popped up in my moderation queue for an article I wrote on the old blog several months ago:
The Holocaust is a huge money maker for Jews; one they do not wish to lose. Irving's and Zundel's struggle in our time is analogous to Galileo's struggle with discovery that threatened the TPTB's power structure.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Now the Holocaust deniers are pulling the Galileo gambit. This guy needs to get a clue. As much as I find the law that sent him to prison for three years to be an offense against free speech, Irving is no Galileo.
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While I am on vacation, I'm reprinting a number of "Classic Insolence" posts to keep the blog active while I'm gone. (It also has the salutory effect of allowing me to move some of my favorite posts from the old blog over to the new blog, and I'm guessing that quite a few of my readers have…
Well, today's the day. After all the waiting, it's finally here.
David Irving is going to stand trial for Holocaust denial in Austria today.
Those of you who have read my old blog a while know what a despicable human being I consider David Irving to be. He's clearly an anti-Semite, most famously…
Well, that was fast.
The trial took less than a day. David Irving, as expected, pleaded guilty. As expected, he was found guilty of Holocaust denial. What was not expected was the severity of the sentence:
VIENNA, Feb. 20 (AP) — The British historian David Irving on Monday pleaded guilty to denying…
Somehow, someway, a bit of slime oozed its way into a Manhattan church to insinuate itself into that fair city and thereby contaminate it. Somehow, I managed to miss it.
Sadly, the world's most famous Holocaust denier, David Irving, is touring the U.S. to give aid and comfort to anti-Semites,…
I notice that Wikipedia and SkepticWiki don't have entries for "Galileo Gambit". Someone should make one.
I can see how it might go...
Someone should do a bit of research -- it's probably not a big enough subject for a dissertation, but it would probably support a good undergraduate thesis or maybe a master's -- into the history of the Galileo Gambit. Seems to me that it's a great deal more prevalent than it was even 10 years ago, or in the preceding few decades.
This is just anecdotal, but I'm more attuned to Galileo references than average, and it seems this way to me.
I suppose it's due to much more serious attempts to make various pseudosecience activities respectable. The obvious example is ID, and there's global non-warming and the rest. It's funny to see the "I'm being persecuted like Galileo" gain popularity in parallel with "Galileo wasn't really persecuted", another popular subject at present.