Galileo's Crime and Social Justice

In 2001, Robert gave his presidential address to the Society for the Study of Social Problems at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC. He called upon the members of SSSP to join him in committing Galileo's crime. What exactly was that crime? Drawing upon the writings of the historian Santillana, Robert pointed out that the crime was not really about whether the earth or sun was at the center of the universe, but the fact that Galileo presented his findings not in Latin, the language of the elites, but in Italian, the language of the people. Thus, Galileo was doing public science, and Robert called upon SSSP to commit the crime of public sociology by finding ways to get their research findings before the larger public.

Addendum: As an historical oddity, Robert's father drove a cab in DC for 35 years and his favorite cab stand was the one outside the Mayflower Hotel. Why?  Because he believed that the Doorman of the Mayflower followed the cabbies "fair rules" of never letting new passengers enter a cab that was discharging riders. Instead, the doorman always called for one of the cabs in line at the cabstand.