It’s pretty scary when so-called “scientists” are arguing for using the law to persecute those who disagree with their “consensus”. I guess they probably also thing the Catholic church was completely justified in persecuting Galileo, since he broken with the “consensus” and threatened the church’s monopoly on the truth.
The Pope’s problem with Galileo wasn’t that he threatened Scripture, rather it was that he claimed a thing as fact that he couldn’t at the time prove and did so under the imprimatur of the Church. There were Clerics who believed what Galileo believed.