These excerpts are from a 2011 debate in the U. S. Congress concerning financial reform. One of the provisions of (a proposed bill] that will hinder economic growth and the creation of new jobs is the massive new bureaucracy called the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB. Everyone supports consumer protection, but the CFPB was given virtually unlimited power to
dictate the types, terms and prices of financial products and services that consumers and small businesses can obtain from their bank or other
credit
provider. ... The burden of this credit rationing will fall most heavily on lower-income and middle class families, as well as the small businesses
that create about 80 percent of all new jobs. Rather than being protected, consumers are likely to be denied the products they want and need.
-U. S. House Committee on Financial Services report, 2011
We have all seen the consequences of a regulatory system in which no single regulator has the authority and the comprehensive tools necessary
to ensure that the consumer financial markets work for American families. For years, we have seen the growth of fine print that hides important
and complex terms, fine print that makes it almost impossible for consumers know what they are really getting into when they sign on the
dotted line. ... As a country, we are all paying the price for a consumer credit system that was broken.
-Elizabeth Warren, U. S. Treasury Department, 2011
Which basic assumption behind the committee report is not a basic assumption behind Warren's statement?

they both built pyramids.

the revival of interest in greek and roman influences also stimulated developments in math and science. the mathematical traditions that governed the conception of the universe were based in greek mathematics that had been preserved and built upon by scientists in muslim lands, such as nasir al-din in the 13th century. the catholic church endorsed the views of ptolemy, the greek philosopher and astronomer who constructed a geocentric theory where all planets, the moon, and the sun revolved around the earth. using calculations from al-din, polish monk and mathematician, nicholas copernicus, concluded that the geocentric theory did not make sense. instead, his data indicated that the earth and all the other planets rotated around the sun, a conclusion that he did not share widely, for fear of retaliation from the church. in fact, his heliocentric theory was not published until after his death in 1543.

the scientist that really got into trouble over the heliocentric theory was italian galileo galilei, who strengthened and improved copernicus' theory. other scientists, such as johannes kepler, had demonstrated that planets also moved in elliptical orbits, and galileo confirmed those theories as well. perhaps most famously, he built a telescope that allowed him to observe the phenomena directly, recording details of heavenly bodies that the ancients could never have known about. galileo's theories were published in the starry messenger in 1610, a highly controversial book criticized by other scientists, as well as officials of the church. galileo made the mistake of making fun of people that disagreed with him, and he was arrested and put on trial, eventually recanting his theory publicly in order to save his own life.