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It was mostly a political thing. Based on his observations, he discovered that what most people believed wasn't true... but since so many important people believed it, and weren't open to the new information, it almost came down to who was more important and more popular, rather than who was right.

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Q: Why did some of the authorities at the time find Galileo a threat?
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