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Galileo Jordanius Copernicus and censorship

While preparing my article Pseudoscience: who benefits? I came across an interesting fact, which I think I can tell the Hubra community about.

Gazeta.ru organized a kind of press conference of Boris Gryzlov in the Internet (he is, by the way, the 3rd most important post in our country).

The speech went like this: he was given a block of three to five relatively decent questions, he assessed them, said: "Good questions", and then began to answer. He did not answer a single question, just said what he thought was right: about the United Russia party's programme, about Clean Water, etc.

He also got to the point of pseudoscience, surprised that the term was in the title of the Commission: "This is the Middle Ages! Here, Copernicus was burned at the stake for saying "And yet the Earth spins!".

For people fully immersed in IT, I remind you that:
- Copernicus lived peacefully until he was 70 and died of a stroke.
- "And yet the Earth turns!" said Galileo Galilei, who was never burned.
- Giordano Bruno was burned for his mystical experiments and worship of the demon Hermes Trismegistus, which was then a violation of the law, a criminal offence and punishable by death.

But the most interesting thing happened after this clause hit the media. It started disappearing from all the leading internet publications, as if it never existed. They were removed (as if on cue) from all the internet media which rebroadcast the press conference, but they forgot to remove it only in one place - Gryzlov's personal blog, where the YouTube video clip is still present.

PS That clause has disappeared from the transcript of the interview on Gazeta.ru, but Gryzlov's blog still has it.
 
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Yeah, it's fucking inspiring, mate.

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