There is a long history of attacks on scientists. During the Inquisition, the Roman Catholic Church charged Galileo with heresy and, after imprisonment and threats of torture, forced him to renounce his theory that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe. (1) In the 1950s, politicians sought to silence scientists that allegedly held political views sympathetic to Communists. (2)Suppression of environmental science. | Goliath Business News