I doubt Galileo would feel the need. Newton might, though. He went through a very odd phase of paranoia about the scientific establishment and tucked himself away in a garret (read “basement” in the present) to get into some pretty weird shit. He’d be a natural for WUWT and dog-astrology journals.
For every Galileo there are at least a thousand Von Danikens.
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He’d certainly get more readers if he blogged on WUWT than if he published in Nature.
Yes, because the criteria for good science is page hits…
I doubt Galileo would feel the need. Newton might, though. He went through a very odd phase of paranoia about the scientific establishment and tucked himself away in a garret (read “basement” in the present) to get into some pretty weird shit. He’d be a natural for WUWT and dog-astrology journals.
I think would experience some involuntary conspiracist ideation upon learning of the people in jail for sharing the wrong opinion about WW2 🙂