If ever you're considering challenging the religious leaders of your day, ask yourself: what would Jesus do?
Do you mean to suggest only that he was not disinterested, or do you really mean to say that he was guilty and the religious leaders treated him appropriately?
I am suggesting that Galileo was far from disinterested - he was as much as philosopher as he was a scientist, and he was, with this book, very much picking a fight. He may have been justified in doing so, but what I was taught - that he was just a scientist reporting the facts as he saw them and the clergy disagreed with the facts so they persecuted him to suppress the facts - is completely false.
The book is a dialog between three characters. The character that represents the clergy's point of view is named "Simplicio" (Simpleton). Galileo was not acting the part of a disinterested scientist when he wrote that.
Jesus called the religious leaders of his day vipers and whitewashed tombs. He too was far from disinterested.
I am not weighing in on either side of the actual argument between Galileo and the clergy here.