Science must not fall victim to the New Inquisition!

WAY back in 1610, a chap called Galileo published a book called Sidereus Nuncius.

It was the result of him turning his new- fangled telescope skywards and looking at the heavens.

He described mountains on the Moon, thousands of stars not visible to the naked eye and what looked like four moons around Jupiter.

It was one of the most important books in the history of humanity as it took science down the road of observation; looking at how things were, rather than speculating what they might, or should, be.

But there was a problem for poor Galileo. What he saw and what he could PROVE was at odds with the teachings of the Catholic Church.

He showed that the sun was at the centre of things, not the Earth.

The befrocked men who ran the Inquisition said this ran contrary to what they believed. Galileo was accused of heresy, which got you burned alive back then.

He was forced to keep schtum about his findings – findings which were TRUE and could be PROVED.

He was sentenced to life under house arrest and his books banned.

Eventually, as we know, science won the day and dogma was firmly put in its box. In the last 500 years

science has delivered great things.

Backwards

But now we appear to be going backwards. Back to the Dark Ages.

The Science Museum is set to change a display on human biology following complaints over, you guessed it, its ‘ lack of mention of transgender’.

The Boy or Girl? exhibition, covering subjects such as hormones and chromosomes, will be altered to ‘ update [ the] non- inclusive narrative’. The SCIENCE Museum!

Last time I looked, science told us chromosomes don’t do transgender.

The Boy or Girl? exhibit makes reference to feelings of being ‘ born in the wrong body’ and adds gender identity ‘ may not match your biological sex’. Not enough for the New Inquisition.

The museum is taking ‘ action to consult the Museum of Transology’ in Brighton about the display.

Hold on, the Science Museum is taking lessons from some half- arsed outfit that sprang up four years ago in barmy Brighton?

Look, I don’t care if anyone wants to put on a dress and call themselves Doreen. If you are trans, I am happy to refer to you by your “preferred pronouns”. It’s only polite.

But when science is forced to pay homage to belief, we’re heading for VERY troubling times.

The sort of times where people are burned at the stake for speaking the provable truth.

When a venerable institution like the Science Museum is forced to bow down to the angry gods of ‘ diversity’, centuries of progress risks being undone.

Galileo was forced to keep quiet about his discoveries which changed the world.

We owe it to future generations NOT to keep quiet now.