I have no problem with ol' Galen, who in his time pushed medicine forward as far as he could see. in the early 1700's, when Wm Harvey decided to look for himself and documented the circulatory system as a pumping system rather than a tidal one, it caused quite a flap as a good many of London's best refused to change paradigms.One of them went so far as to intone that he would find it "better to err with Galen than to be right with Harvey"! This line (whtehr apocryphal or not) has come down as symbolic of the very epitome of pigheaded resistiveness, and the all-too-human love of authority as a substitute for clear thought.
None of which has anything to do with the good Dr.'s namesake (aha! The opposite of eponym!) in local time. That's the one who has earned our censure as a cretinous yahoo.
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