WWGD?

Well, we know what he did the last time orthodoxy stood in the way of rational thought -- he defended his work! And then he famously lost his case and had to publicly recant. BUT, perhaps even more famously, he then grumbled aloud the precious words, "Eppur si muove" -- Still, it moves! -- in a sort of monumental finger crossing that has become legend.

So, what would Gallileo Gallilei do were he alive today, faced with the spectacle of orthodoxy attempting, yet again, to crush reason? I suspect he would be amongst the loudest of "deniers" (a term which should be reserved, forever, for deniers of the Holocaust -- lest we forget!) and, when refused publication in "peer reviewed journals," he would blog!

And his admirers would immortalize him in photoshop.

And create snarky nerd coffee cups in his honor!


And hawk them shamelessly in online stores!