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Just a note: What Galileo saw through his telescope did not irritate the Church. Instead, they paid him handsomely to make them one. And they were funding him, and continued to fund him even after his first trial for heresy. This all while the Thirty Years War against the Protestants was raging, where the notion that any man could come up with his own interpretation of the Bible was something to fight wars over ....

See for instance: https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2011/09/the-myth-of-galileo-a-story-with-a-mostly-valuable-lesson-for-today/ or https://www.ncregister.com/blog/14-errors-revolving-around-galileo-and-how-to-clear-them-up

I have no particular liking for the Roman Catholic Church but the Galileo story is just another false narrative.

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I really admire your work. I suspect the regulators, being such, will never run out of things that they can find for regulation, whether needed or not. An outsider, like Trump, was wise in insisting some must go before making any new ones. Likely a good move but rare. The book of rules has grown exceedingly large over the years, well beyond any other than specialists can understand.

I suspect regulations stifle innovation - a very real cost. The US led innovation for a very long time with the notion that the market would sort the good from the bad. Nominally until recently, finances kept the failure rate high for poor performers. As the economy declines marginal firms disappear but regulation might be a part of that. Regulatory capture is one way the large guys keep the new upstarts in their place even before they can really compete. In the long term, I can't see how this improves the economy.

Without innovation by dreamers, even the green future is harmed. If carbon is really an issue we need a lot of innovation that the entire world might benefit from. State control as in many places has led to poor designs - notably the Chinese copy of a US nuclear reactor design is not widely used, not even by the Chinese! We can hope the new modular, factory built smaller US reactors might pave the way; some regulations have been set aside as unsuited for the newer designs, but we shall see.

I think your findings might be useful to Congress going forward. Why are there no teams to build a better case? This issue, like non-proprietary open systems voting designs seem stalled. I assume great forces exist to prevent change that might disrupt their cozy conditions.

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