Argumentum ad Galileus:
Risum procul Galileus
Rideo procul mihi
Ergo sum tunc Galileus
What I'm trying to say:
The Galileo Fallacy:
They laughed at Galileo
They're laughing at me
Therefore I am the next Galileo
It's not easy trying to write something in a language you don't know, and Spanish isn't as much help as I thought it might be. Corrections greatly welcomed.
Inspired by yet another the-consensus-was-the-Earth-is-flat reference, this time by the Superfreakonomics guys that I'm not writing about anymore (and who are refuted here).
Of course as I finish writing this I find someone's come up with a similar description for something called the Galileo Gambit. They didn't try writing it in really bad Latin, though, so I win.
UPDATE: got the first correction from Steve Bloom, so I've changed the Latin above. I'll keep changing it as corrections come in.
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