Allow me to point out that Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, had no astronomy degree.

But neither did they claim to have one. Nor has anyone else ever defended their works by making such a claim.

(Tycho Brahe... was he the gunfighter character in Cat Ballou?)

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