Censorships and their Antidotes in Covid Times

Persecution of those with differing views is alive, well and kicking. Energised by the Covid pandemic.

A defrocked philosopher and bon viveur, Giordano Bruno committed a heinous crime: his philosophy did not agree with the official science embodied by the Catholic Church. Bruno thought the earth rotated around other planets and the universe was infinite: real heresy. After eight years of detention, unlike Galileo, he refused to recant and was burned at t…