Ban the botters for life

[Ardbeg]

Galileo, Copernicus and other prominent astronomers were once censured by the Church for proposing that the Earth revolved around the Sun and was not, as the prevailing theory asserted, at the centre of the universe. So if the people who give names to the animals tell you that the duck is not a duck, there is nothing you can do about it till they eventually convince themselves.

The church eventually excused to Galileo a few hundred years later after a looong investigation:

Though the Pope acknowledged that the Church had done Galileo a wrong, he said the 17th-century theologians were working with the knowledge available to them at the time.