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"Pluto does not predate telescopes by thousands of years" - Rev. Berkeley



In fact, it does. [1]

The people who named Pluto conflated the scientific discovery with an ancient mythology and tradition of wandering stars, as if it were a continuation of it, and now certain people affiliated with the scientific community go around on the Internet telling members of the general public that they're speaking imprecisely about their horoscopes, as if that behavior will have no impact on whether the public will listen to the scientific community on matters like how not to spread covid, vaccines, and climate change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_(mythology)




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