LOL! You have it exactly backwards. The charge against Galileo was for presenting scientific theory as fact.
No, the charge against Galileo was going against the Church and Ptolemy.
Actually it was Copernicus I had in mind. Never mind—Rosanna Rosannadanna.
True.
But most people don't remember that.
They remember that he was eventually proven right not that according to all the evidence at the time his theory was at best inconclusive.
On the other side there was evidence for the alternative theory.
It should a lesson on how easy it is to read evidence wrong and that just because we can not prove something does not mean that it is totally wrong. If you look at a lot of other people that did the same thing (taught theory as fact) you will find the vast majority of them were full of hokum.