SIYENTISTA NG MASA ! This is the what friends from the media and communication departments of some colleges told me. Thanks to the media, unassuming and inoffensive weatherman Dr Prisco Nilo has become not just a government scientist but the scientist of the masses! Now the tibak profs of the UP College of Science could only dream of this "canonization" on their heads. :-) We have nothing to thank but P-Noy for sacking him and making him a "martyr"! It all started when ABS CBN described his dwelling as "payak" or poor and humble. This is quite archaic Tagalog and is rarely used outside the context of priestly sermons and the St Luke's Gospel narrative during the Christmas Eve Mass. Ang sabsaban ni Jesus ay payak! Remember? Cardinal Dency Rosales of Manila is fond of using the word. My Mom who is a true blue Tagala says that the word means more than poor but downtrodden and oppressed like how Joseph and Mary were by Herod and the Romans. And since s...
"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved" - Galileo