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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 10 Aug 2017

    Whether the earth orbits the sun is a question to be determined by research, not church policy.

    11:17 PM - 10 Aug 2017
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      2. Roger Dickey‏ @rogerdickey 10 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Tweets from the 16th century

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 10 Aug 2017
        Replying to @rogerdickey

        Imagine the mob that would have been after you for saying that on Twitter in the 17 C.

        1 reply 0 retweets 26 likes
      4. Mehrdad Afshari‏ @MehrdadA 10 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg @rogerdickey

        Not sure you'd be safe from the mob in August 2017.

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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      1. Joël Sepulveda Franusic‏ @jf 10 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        I've been thoroughly enjoying Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World" which is, essentially, a treatise on that very subject:pic.twitter.com/lAwUc45aiA

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      2. David Pinsen‏ @dpinsen 10 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        How much more money do you personally need before you feel you can speak plainly again? Just curious.

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      3. johnineson‏ @johnineson 11 Aug 2017
        Replying to @dpinsen @paulg

        Strange assumption. I'd guess he's not worried about him costing money, rather his freedom to keep doing the work he enjoys.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. David Pinsen‏ @dpinsen 11 Aug 2017
        Replying to @johnineson @paulg

        He's his own boss. Who's going to take his freedom?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. johnineson‏ @johnineson 11 Aug 2017
        Replying to @dpinsen @paulg

        If people don't want to work with you because you offended them, you are less able to do that work.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. David Pinsen‏ @dpinsen 11 Aug 2017
        Replying to @johnineson @paulg

        He can work with the un-offended. They're probably better bets anyway.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      7. johnineson‏ @johnineson 11 Aug 2017
        Replying to @dpinsen @paulg

        Even great successes can have a few odd opinions. And consequences of offending spill over to colleagues – arrogant to force that on them.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. David Pinsen‏ @dpinsen 11 Aug 2017
        Replying to @johnineson @paulg

        It's not on him if others try guilt by association.

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      9. johnineson‏ @johnineson 11 Aug 2017
        Replying to @dpinsen @paulg

        "It's not my fault this totally foreseeable thing happened because in THEORY it shouldn't". Good luck with that approach.

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      1. Jason Kelly‏ @jrkelly 10 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        yeah, but only certain problems can be definitively answered with hard science research. lots of things too messy to get the controls right.

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      1. Marco‏ @kolkmvd 10 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Sure, but please be advised that your vision might be wrong too. The sun-earth system both orbit a point somewhere off the sun's center 1/

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      1. Mikael Pawlo‏Verified account @mpawlo 10 Aug 2017
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        Is this a discussion on Twitter now? Wouldn't surprise me much. #teamRoundEarth

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      1. Sam Kazemian‏ @samkazemian 11 Aug 2017
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        It's actually a question about perspective and vantage point, not even science.

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      1. Hasan M‏ @Hasmanean 11 Aug 2017
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        The earth and sun both orbit their common centre of mass. Mathematically it's a question determined by your frame of reference.

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      1. yburyug‏ @yburyug 10 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        very progressive paul, 5 stars. thoughtleadering champ.

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      2. Wibberrrrrrr128  💻 🖥️ 🖱️‏ @wibrr 11 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Even still, writing a memo to your coworkers about how heliocentrism means women just aren't good programmers on average is inadvisable.

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      3. Wibberrrrrrr128  💻 🖥️ 🖱️‏ @wibrr 11 Aug 2017
        Replying to @wibrr @paulg

        Especially when other empirical data from 1967 and Malaysia begs to differ.

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