[circlecity]

Isn’t that essentially the same thing they told Galileo?

[Calvin Locke]

Sort of. Galileo and the pope at the time didn't get along, so it was Galileo's obstinacy to endorsing some book by the pope that got him into trouble.

Unlike today's elite, they weren't adverse to considering consistently reproducible results over some wild theories based on cherry-picked and deliberately manipulated data that falls apart under the slightest of scrutiny.