Galileo fallacy

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The Galileo fallacy is the idea that if you are widely vilified for your ideas, you must therefore be right.

They made fun of Galileo, and he was right.

They make fun of me, therefore I am right.

In "reality", in order to wear the mantle of Galileo, not only must one be scorned by the establishment, but one must be correct.

Or as Carl Sagan put it;

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

[edit] See also

• Crank
• Logical fallacy

[edit] External links

• http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2007/09/the-galileo-fal.html
• http://oracknows.blogspot.com/2005/03/galileo-gambit.html

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