Re: SOC/BIO: Italian action against cloned bull

Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
27 Sep 1999 14:26:23 +0200

GBurch1@aol.com writes:

> With this in mind - and girding for controversy - Galli named his bull in
> honor of the Renaissance astronomer who faced the wrath of the Inquisition
> for saying the Earth revolves around the Sun.
>
> "It wasn't an accident we named him Galileo," Galli told the daily Corriere
> della Sera.

This was a good move. It is up to us to spread the word now and make people see the correlations. "Engineered" controversies like this can be useful sometimes.

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