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Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory recently claimed that scientists burned "heretics" for disagreeing with then-accepted science. Was there ever an instance, even ONE, when the scientific community burned or otherwise punished a "heretic"?

by /u/Diodemedes in /r/AskHistorians

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