...what can be explained by ignorance (or stupidity). Or so the saying goes. Yet sometimes one wonders.
Is it really just ignorance that leads people to make untrue statements, or is it an attempt to provide evidence for a position that is incorrect?
I can hear you say "What is he talking about?"
Have you heard anyone say that in 1992 Pope John Paul II, on behalf of the Catholic Church, conceded that Galileo was right and that the Earth rotates around the Sun? Well I have, several times, most recently in a program pamphlet for a new play presented at a major international mathematical conference.
Of course that statement is incorrect and a quick search would allow anyone to get it right. So, why is it made? Why such sloppy "scholarship" by people who should know better? Any workable hypothesis, or just stupidity?
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