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.
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.