Demographic I think is the answer
Mainly, the Catholics wanted control, the people would ask them to state their facts on Christianity, those of the church who failed were either ran out of town or worse
Yes, this is actually a good statement for all scientist and expanding farther beyond that. Science is expanding today and growing richer in content but the past discoveries and founders in science are the foundation which science will always stand on. Without the basic laws or basic facts of Science, the complicated or farther extended information will not be valuable.