Oh, if you're saying that Giordano Bruno was crazy, you may be right.
I'd certainly never try to get myself burned at the stake to draw
attention to something I wrote, but he certainly did, and succeeded in
doing so. As to locking Galileo up for not having proof of his
claims:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-Suk
They still do that. It's called fraud.
Are you deliberately playing straight man for me, by the way?