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Television company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your Television Provider i am doctor mario i am in astrophysicists and the author of seven Popular Science books. The most recent of which is called the science deniers, i live in baltimore and they currently am in baltimore at my home, as you can see i have something that looks like that in every room in the house, it almost does not matter where i film this. The book as i say is the science deniers, this is a fresh biography of galileo, at the same time with an eye on science denial today to unfortunately we have quite little. The idea is to study from the fascinating person who lived in the 17th century but to see what lessons we can learn from that or to what extent was some sense already fought battles that we have to fight again today, you know when people hear that i wrote the book, natural question is how comes i decided to write a book about galileo given that there are two biographies about him. There are seve